Քրւստափոր Քուշնարյան-արևելագետը

The renowned scholar, composer and pedagogue Qristofor Qushnaryan paid particular attention to the genres of traditional classical music of the peoples of the Middle East – namely, mughams and dastgahs, the art of ashughs and sazandars. The proposed in his monograph “Issues of the History and Theory of Armenian Monodic Music” ideas and principal starting concepts regarding the mutual cultural influence, genetic foundations of the phenomena, generally accepted in the East and deeply rooted and highly widespread among the Armenian populace, the commonality in the modal systems, the historical mission of Armenian musicians in this field, as well as the analytical outlines of a large number of other problems are indicative of the scholar’s undeniable merits in musical Oriental Studies, and serve as a worthwhile guidance for musicians-orientalists in their research work.