translate English to German: Over the last two decades of the 19th c., the Armenian press printed numerous debates about the state of liturgical chant and the originality of its melodies. Many personalities wrote about these subjects, but not all were singers, for even at that time Western classical music was very à la mode amongst the Armenian intelligentsia.
Demgemäß hielt sich die neue Notenschrift ungefähr 30 Jahre lang im Abseits des musikalischen Lebens.