Avetik Isahakyan (Libri)

Avetik Isahakyan Libri

Avetik Isahakyan fu un celebrato poeta e scrittore armeno le cui opere sono profondamente intrise di dolore e meditazioni sul destino dell'umanità e sulle ingiustizie della vita. La sua scrittura, caratterizzata da lirismo, intensità emotiva e melodia, esprime un profondo amore per la sua patria e il suo popolo. Isahakyan si concentrò in modo significativo sulla lotta armena per la libertà, diventando uno dei primi ad affrontare la tragedia del Genocidio Armeno, che narrò in "Il Libro Bianco". Il suo romanzo incompiuto, "Usta Karo", simboleggia la causa armena irrisolta e la duratura convinzione dell'autore nel ritorno del popolo armeno alle sue terre ancestrali.

Sheram: Songs with music notation in Armenian and transliterated English lyrics

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11 ore di lettura

It is with great pleasure that we announce the publication of one of Armenia's most important ashoughs' works in transliterated English for the first time in history. Ashough Sheram is one of the most prominent Armenian traditional ashoughs (bard singers). Having been born in 1857 in Aleksandropol (currently Gyumri) as Grigor Talyan, he received "Sheram" as his musical avatar for weaving beautiful melodies. More than 100 songs of Sheram are included in this book, each with a music notation and Armenian lyrics transliterated into English. The reader also gets a deeper understanding of Sheram's ability as a poet of love by reading around thirty of his songs translated into English for the first time. There are five chapters in the book: Love Songs, From the Sad Past, Satirical, Dances, and Appendix. The first four chapters of this book contain transcriptions of songs written by Sheram's son, composer Vardges Talyan circa 1948. There are also transcriptions of several songs by another scholar, musicologist Aram Kocharyan. This book ends with transcriptions of the most popular songs of Sheram, as performed by two of his greatest interpreters, Araksya Gyulzadyan and Ofelia Hambardzumyan.