"''Kurdish melodies'' ( hy, Քրդական եղանակներ, K'rdakan yeghanakner, translation=Kurdish melodies, ku, Awazên Kurdî) is a collection of

Kurdish Kurdish may refer to: *Kurds or Kurdish people *Kurdish languages *Kurdish alphabets *Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes: **Southern Kurdistan **Eastern Kurdistan **Northern Kurdistan **Western Kurdistan See also * Kurd (dis ...

folk song Folk music is a music genre that includes #Traditional folk music, traditional folk music and the Contemporary folk music, contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be c ...

s collected and transcribed by

Armenian Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian Diaspora, Armenian communities across the ...

composer

Komitas Soghomon Soghomonian, ordained and commonly known as Komitas, ( hy, Կոմիտաս; 22 October 1935) was an Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster, who is considered the founder of the Armenian national scho ...

during

field work Field research, field studies, or fieldwork is the collection of raw data outside a laboratory, library, or workplace setting. The approaches and methods used in field research vary across disciplines. For example, biologists who conduct f ...

among

Kurds ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Ir ...

and published in December 1903. Despite collecting a large amount of Kurdish melodies, most of them were lost, and ''Kurdish melodies'' became the only publication of Kurdish songs by Komitas. ''Kurdish melodies'' would consequently become the first publication of Kurdish music.

Work

In his transcription, Komitas stayed loyal to the authentic structure of the songs and kept the unique Kurdish melodic structure. Most of the songs were epic songs. Komitas aspired to write down, preserve and make available the musical national heritage of the Kurdish people. For this, he sought to rest on authenticity. Moreover, he was keen on not collecting songs from the cities since he thought of them as corrupted and therefore spent most of his time in villages among locals. He began collecting Kurdish songs in the mid-1800s before returning to

Echmiadzin Vagharshapat ( hy, Վաղարշապատ ) is the 4th-largest city in Armenia and the most populous municipal community of Armavir Province, located about west of the capital Yerevan, and north of the closed Turkish-Armenian border. It is comm ...

in 1899. The songs were collected around

Mount Ararat Mount Ararat or , ''Ararat''; or is a snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in the extreme east of Turkey. It consists of two major volcanic cones: Greater Ararat and Little Ararat. Greater Ararat is the highest peak in Turkey and th ...

Songs

The thirteen songs that comprises ''Kurdish melodies'': #Ghandili Siapusch ( hy, Ղանդիլի Սիափուշ}) #Lelil Medjnum ( ku, Leyla û Mecnûn, hy, Լեյլի Մէջնում}) #Djanbalie ( hy, Ջամբալիէ}) #Hasan Agha ( hy, Հասան աղա}) #Mirza Agha ( hy, Միրզա աղա}) #Khullekh Giaro I ( hy, Քուլլըք Գեարօ}) #Khullekh Giaro II ( hy, Քուլլըք Գեարօ}) #Mamzin ( ku,

Mem û Zîn ''Mem and Zin'' ( ku, Mem û Zîn) is a Kurdish classic love story written down in 1692 and is considered to be the épopée of Kurdish literature. It is the most important work of Kurdish writer and poet Ahmad Khani (1651-1707). ''Mam and Zin'' ...

, hy, Մամզին}) #Darwischi Awdi ( ku, Dewrêşê Evdî, hy, Դարվիշի Աւդի}) #Sewahadje ( hy, Սեւահաջէ}) #Hamede Schange ( hy, Համըդէ Շանգե}) #Hame Musa ( hy, Համէ Մուսէ}) #Sairan ( ku, Seyran, hy, Սէյրան)

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