Folk music, popular professional music, minstrel songs and Armenian medieval monody, taken as a whole, cannot be classified either as Oriental or Occidental. It has a musical character of its own with very rich means of expression. This complex and ancient heritage has played a decisive role, in every respect, in the process of creating a distinctively national Armenian music in the modern period. Armenian classical music still turns to national elements for its compositions. Such a tradition reinforces the artistic aspirations and creative imagination of composers, artists, and the public alike in all domains of musical life.
Folk music is still very much alive in Armenia and in the diaspora.
Such traditional instruments as the saz, kaman, kamanch'a, t'ar, sant'ur or canon, and percussions still form an integral part of folk ensembles. All rights reserved Web Site Design by SSS Graphics .