Armenian chant & hymnography "Treasurers Old and New"

[Pavel Mosko]

MATTHEW 13:52
KJ21
Then said He unto them, “Therefore every scribe who is instructed unto the Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.”


I'm basically talking about anything that ain't part of the original rite like organ music and Komitas stuff that is more than a century old, but still somewhat new compared to the original liturgy, rite etc.

 

[dzheremi]

I personally prefer the unaccompanied chant as you'd hear in Jerusalem, but Armenian chant is so beautiful that a restrained use of the organ is certainly not going to harm it. Though I think I am in the minority in preferring Yekmalian to Komitas...

 

[The Liturgist]

I personally prefer the unaccompanied chant as you'd hear in Jerusalem, but Armenian chant is so beautiful that a restrained use of the organ is certainly not going to harm it. Though I think I am in the minority in preferring Yekmalian to Komitas...

I think most congregations prefer Yekmalian to Komitas; I slightly prefer Komitas. There are other settings of the Armenian liturgy, for example, a traditional but very simple setting by Edgar Manas.

 

[Pavel Mosko]

I think most congregations prefer Yekmalian to Komitas; I slightly prefer Komitas. There are other settings of the Armenian liturgy, for example, a traditional but very simple setting by Edgar Manas.

I gotta admit never heard of Yekmalian until this thread. In being with a Armenian congregation almost a year, all the talk was on Komitas.