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Additional Info
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ComposerGabriela Lena Frank
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PublisherG Schirmer Inc
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ArrangementViolin/Percussion (VLN/PERC)
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FormatScore and Parts
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Genre20th Century
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TextNahapet Quchak
Description
For soprano, percussion, and violin. Seven Armenian Songs is a setting of lyrical quatrains traditional to the Armenian culture known as hayrens. The hayrens featured in this suite of seven songs are from the hand of the 16th-century Armenian poet Nahapet Kuchak, known for having written on love, social inequality, and the eventual fates of men. Personally, what has struck me so deeply about these hayrens, translated by Vatsche Barsoumian, is the power given to a female voice. Through the seven settings, a strong female lead is allowed to wonder, to advocate, to mock, to seduce, to regret, and to philosophize. It is remarkable that such breadth of character is achieved in just a few quatrains of fifteen syllables per line. — Gabriela Lena Frank