Duduk Repertoire with Piano Accompaniment


Book Description

"Duduk Repertoire with Piano Accompaniment" in two volumes is the third book of Honored Artist of Republic of Armena, master player and teacher Georgy Minasyan (Minasov). Being the first of its type ever being published for worldwide duduk players, the book contains wide selection of Armenian folk, gusan and spiritual music, as well as classical works of Armenian, Russian and Western European composers arranged for traditional and extended range Armenian duduks. Two volumes contain over 160 musical pieces of music with varying degrees of complexity designed for all levels of performing skills - from elementary to professional.




Komitas Songs For Duduk With Piano Accompaniment


Book Description

Another great book from Georgy Minasyan (Minasov) dedicated to 150th anniversary of Komitas vardapet. Over 50 favorite Komitas songs are specially arranged for duduk with piano accompaniment so that you can enrich your repertoire with these Armenian classics in no time. The book includes a wide variety of favorite folk songs, such as Shogher Jan, Kele kele, Hov Areq Sarer Jan and more with titles in Armenian and English. Komitas (Soghomon Soghomon Gevorg, 1869-1935) holds an exceptional place in the spiritual life of the Armenian people. He has worked extensively as a composer, musicologist, singer, conductor, educator. Komitas is the founder of the National Composition School. He is the one who discovered the unique and highly valuable peasant folk music of the Armenian people that has thousands of years of history.




Duduk For Beginners


Book Description

The Duduk For Beginners is specifically created for beginner duduk players in mind who are just entering the mystical world of this beautiful Armenian instrument. The first edition includes scales, studies, and etudes to improve beginner duduk player performance, as well as plenty of material to build your first playing repertoire. Specific attention was paid to include works of Armenian, Russian and Western European composers in addition to traditional Armenian spiritual, folk music, gussan songs and dance melodies. The book is divided into three parts: - Introduction to duduk, basic scales, exercises for each scale, as well as various melodies to make things more interesting.- Duduk solo repertoire arrangements from variety of genres, including classics adaptations (Mozart, Bach, Marcello.)- Duduk repertoire with piano arrangements, including beautiful pieces like Lullaby by Johannes Brahms, etc.




Armenian Duduk


Book Description

The Third Edition of Armenian Duduk Method is the only trilingual comprehensive and easy-to-use guide designed for anyone interested in playing Armenian Duduk from the complete novice just learning the basics to the more advanced player. Using his prominent performance and pedagogy background Georgy Minasov takes an all-in-one approach by combining theory, scales and technique into a single volume. For those who want to enrich their repertoire the book features over 250 songs from different music genres including such duduk standards as Hovern Enkan, Machkal, Eshkhemet and much more. The book is divided into four sections. The first section aims to teach the beginners to perform smoothly and correctly read the notes. Section II fixes and further builds on the skills gained in Section I, adding competence of correct performance of folk and gussan songs, dance melodies, and spiritual music. Sections III and IV include ensembles and mughams - the pearls of Eastern culture along with their audio tracks accessible online. More information about the book can be found by accessing book's official website at www.minasovduduk.com




Arrangements for Duduk Quarter


Book Description

The final of the seven books published by one of Armenia's most renowned duduk players, inventors, and teachers, Georgy Minasyan (Minasov), studies his work as the artistic director of Dudukner Ensemble he founded. The book contains transpositions and arrangements of compositions written specifically for this ensemble that used an array of duduk instruments that were invented by the author. The book consists of four sections: Excerpts from the Liturgy, Vesper and Church Hymns, Armenian Folk Songs and Classical compositions and is intended for duduk or woodwind ensembles that are looking to perform Armenian spiritual and folk music repertoire.




Duduk Virtuoso


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Being the first ever scales and exercise book published for Armenian traditional and extended range duduk (invented by Georgy Minasyan himself) Duduk Virtuoso has been written having the future of duduk in mind. While the traditional duduk has limited playing range of around one octave, extended range duduk allows performance across two octaves and in all twelve keys, significantly increasing the instrument's repertoire. Therefore the book has dual purpose: to help aspiring musicians to increase playing proficiency of the traditional instrument, and to bring to light the full potential of the instrument through mastering the improved instrument. The material, therefore, is designed in a way that will help both curious students and professional performers to further develop the flexibility and agility in all the fingers across the scales previously unfamiliar to traditional duduk. The scales and exercises are sequenced from easy to complex, so that each successive exercise increases the performance challenge and builds the mastery.




The Normativity of Musical Works: A Philosophical Inquiry


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The essay advocates a theory of the musical work as a “social object” which is based on a trace informed by a normative value. Such a normativity is explored in relation to three ways of fixing the trace: orality, notation and phonography.




Music for the Piano Volume I


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G. I. Gurdjieff travelled for many years through Central Asia and the Middle East collecting melodies and ritual dances, which his friend and pupil Thomas de Hartmann wrote down and arranged as piano pieces.




Albanian Urban Lyric Song in the 1930s


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The author examines the indigenous diatonic and chromatic modes used in Albanian urban music and classifies them under traditional headings and as part of a newly established grouping, here termed south-western Balkan modes. The core of the work is the analysis of Albanian urban lyric songs, seen as an artistic version of the traditional Albanian urban songs.




The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera


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A historical survey of opera, from its beginnings in Florence 400 years ago, up to opera in the 1990s.