MUS 130A Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Middle Eastern Music, String Quartet, Armenian Americans
27 Aug 2016
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Mary kouyoumdjian: ottoman empire, 1299-1923, ruled by muslim turks who built an empire by conquering lands from west asia and. Inspired and sustained by islam and islamic institutions: armenians, christina minority in ottoman empire lands- esp eastern anatolia a. i. Many were merchants and industrialist and appeared better off than the turks around them a. ii. Treated badly by the muslim majority: they were allowed to remain in oottoman lands but were sunject to taxes and treated badly, world war i turks sided with the germans, armenians sided with russia c. i. Turks were defeated in efforts to capture lands in russia s territory and blamed. Armenia: armenian music, combines features of european and middle eastern musics, traditional music includes vocal and instrumental styles that today can be linked to trukic, eastern european, and middle eastern music b. i. Most well-known armenian tradition is expressed in the instrumental performances: armenian genocide, 1915 a.
