"Kurdish melodies" (Armenian: Քրդական եղանակներ, romanized: K'rdakan yeghanakner, lit. 'Kurdish melodies',[1][2] Kurdish: Awazên Kurdî[3]) is a collection of Kurdish folk songs collected and transcribed by Armenian composer Komitas during field work among Kurds and published in December 1903.[4] 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.[5][6] Kurdish melodies would consequently become the first publication of Kurdish music.[4]
- ^ "K'rdakan eghanakner = Mélodies kurdes / recueillies par Archimandrite Comitas" (PDF). K'rdakan eghanakner (in French, Kurdish, and Armenian). Moscow: 1–12. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ Geodakyan, G.; Atayan, R., eds. (2006). Հայ ժողովրդական և աշուղական երգեր, նվագներ: Թուրքական երգեր, քրդական երգեր և նվագներ: Գիրք Զ (in Armenian). Yerevan: Gitutyun. p. 117. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "Konferansek li ser Komitas". Yeni Özgür Politika (in Kurdish). 23 April 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ a b Sylvia Angelique Alajaji (2015). Music and the Armenian Diaspora: Searching for Home in Exile. Indiana University Press. p. 168. ISBN 9780253017765.
- ^ Anna Asatryan (2019). "Komitas and the ways of development of Armenian music (to the 150th anniversary of Komitas)" (PDF). Armenian Studies Journal (in English, Armenian, and Russian). Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ Vrej Nersessian (2019). Essays On Armenian Music. London: Routledge. p. 18. ISBN 978-1135879419.