↓ The Armenian Traditional Music and Dance ↓
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and the Armenian Traditional Dances
↓ The Traditional Solo Instruments in Armenia ↓
↓ Tar Solo ↓ by Soghomon Seyranyan (1907 - 1974),
playing Eshkhemet from Ashugh Sayat Nova (1712 - 1795),
Yerevan, Armenia, 1961.
Posted on YouTube by Ararat Music Archive.
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↓ Tar Solo ↓ by Rafael Vardanyan (Varpet Rafik), Armenia,
playing Mayr Araxi Aperov.
Filmed and posted on YouTube by Vanik Avakian,
guitar teacher in Salzburg.
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↓ Kamancha solo ↓ by Hrachya N. Muradyan (1927 - 2010),
playing Akhalkalaki, accompanied on Dam Duduk (drone)
by Ruben Harutyunyan, and on Dhol by L. Avetisyan,
Yerevan, Armenia, 1973.
Posted on YouTube by Ararat Music Archive.
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↓ Kamancha solo ↓ by Hrachya N. Muradyan (1927 - 2010),
playing Ashkharhums Akh Chim Kashi from Ashugh Sayat Nova,
accompanied on Dam Duduk (drone) by Ruben Harutyunyan,
Yerevan, Armenia, 1973.
Posted on YouTube by Ararat Music Archive.
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↓ Kanon solo ↓ by Karine Hovhannisyan, from the Shoghaken Ensemble,
playing Shalakho, dance tune with a scarf or a shawl,
accompanied on Dam Duduk (drone) by Grigor Tagushyan
and on Dhol by Kamo Khachatryan, also improvising a solo.
Posted on YouTube by Hasmik Harutyunyan.
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↓ Duduk solo ↓ by Levon Madoyan,
playing Hovvi Kanch,
accompanied on Dam Duduk (drone) by Andranik Askaryan.
Posted on YouTube by Aygaber.
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↓ Duduk solo ↓ by Artavazd Ter Hovhannisyan,
soloist of the Horovel ensemble from Vanadzor, Armenia,
playing Siretsi Yaris Taran,
accompanied by a Dam Duduk (drone).
Filmed in Bagneux, France, 1991.
Private collection, exclusivity of the ArmenTrad website.
Posted on YouTube by Traditions-Rencontre.
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↓ Dhol solo ↓ by Gagik Hakobyan
in London in 2002.
Posted on YouTube by Artur Sarmazian.
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↓ Shvi solo ↓ by Ilya Minasyan,
playing Sokhak, the nightingale.
Posted on YouTube by Believe SAS.
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↓ Sring solo ↓ performed by a soloist
of the Kessab ethnographic song and dance ensemble
from the town of Echmiatzin, Armenia 1989.
Private collection, exclusivity of the ArmenTrad website.
Posted on YouTube by Traditions-Rencontre.
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↓ Declamation to the sound of a Sring solo ↓,
played by performers of the Kessab ethnographic song and dance
ensemble from the town of Echmiatzin, Armenia 1989.
Private collection, exclusivity of the ArmenTrad website.
Posted on YouTube by Traditions-Rencontre.
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↓ Parkapzuk solo ↓, Armenian bagpipe,
playing a Traditional dance suite
recorded in the village of Bayandur near Akhurian
in the region of Shirak, Armenia.
Posted on YouTube by Arshak Adamian.