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 | | The ensemble’s first release, 2002’s Armenia Anthology, is an example of folk music as an oral tradition of largely unknown authors, except for ashughs such as the 18th-century troubadour Sayat Nova, who composed and gathered the treasured bulk of Armenia’s classical songbook, its origins ranging from Anatolia to the Caucasus. |
| | You can hear more of Harutyunyan’s clear-as-the-wind vocals as she plays mother on Shoghaken’s 2004 Armenian Lullabies, another collection of historic tunes named after villages and provinces such as Sassun and Kessab. |
| | There’s a lot of ground to cover: With more than 20 pages of liner notes each, they’re mini-encyclopedias, really, complete with English lyrics, dance instructions, maps, photos from 1913 and descriptions of all the classical instruments — centered on the duduk, kamancha, kanon and dhol. |
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