Komitas: essays and articles : the musicological treatises of Komitas Vardapet / English translation by Vatsche Barsoumian.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cont. : About this book -- Translator's foreword -- Komitas Vardapet of Kutina: autobiography -- Letter to Karapet Kostanian -- Armenian peasant music -- An overview of Armenian folk music -- The plowing song of Lori as sung in Vardablour village -- Foreword in the "Program book for Armenian folk concert" -- Armenia's national circle dances -- Armenian church music -- The system of the prosodic signs of the Armenian church -- Armenian ecclesiastical melodies -- Armenian church music in the 19th century -- The significance of the neumes of the sharakan -- Armenian folk songs and church songs -- The characteristics of Armenian church and folk music -- Healing through music -- Dance and the child -- Foreword to Hay Qnar (Armenian lyre) -- Love nature! -- Music of the Divine Liturgy -- Recueil des chants populaires armeniens -- Letter to His Grace Bishop Vahram Mankouni -- Letter to His Holiness Catholicos Matt'eos Izmirlian -- Armenians have a unique music -- The state of the nation -- Komitas: an annotated bibliography of published documents: articles, letters, sores -- A bibliography of Armenian music -- Index -- Biographies of Komitas Vardapet and Vatsche Barsoumian.