The Armenian music has its roots in the Armenian Highlands with people mostly singing traditional folk song. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century due to the Armenian priest, composer and musicologist Komitas it was possible to collect the old and long tradition of Armenian music. The glorious height…

  Architecture In the realm of Armenian art, architecture takes pride of place. It was the first of the arts of Armenia to be seriously studied, and to this day Armenian architecture receives more scholarly attention than all of the other arts combined. The separateness of architecture from the other…

  Armenian Dance Before 1915 The Armenian dance heritage has been one of the oldest, richest, and most varied in the Near East. The ancestors of the Armenians established themselves in Hayastan (Armenia) about 650 Before Christ (B.C.) soon after the collapse of the Urartian Empire. The geographic position proved…

  Since alphabets are the primary tools of “fixing” a language, and given our present knowledge of the evolution of letters since their inception, we can only speculate about the beginnings of hieroglyphic and cuneiform scripts for keeping records of events, and later, the transition into using one symbol for…

  Armenian theater dates to before Roman times and is one of the oldest Eurasian theatrical traditions...   The Armenian Theatre has its roots in the theatre of Ancient Greece, and it was a natural development of ancient religious rituals, when hired professional gusans (troubadours), sang the praises of the…