Yeghia Dndesian

Yeghia Dndesian (born Istanbul,

Ottoman Turkey 1881) was an Armenian musician and musical reformer.^[1]

Work

Yeghia Dndesian was among the cultivators of the Sharagan musical style and notation used throughout Armenian churches and religious services.^[1] He was instrumental in resurfacing much of the lost information of ancient Armenian music. In April 1873, a committee consisting of priests, clergymen, and scribes arrived in Constantinople to gather, revise, or recompose Sharagan melodies in order to preserve them for notation.^[2] Dndesian was chosen as a member of the committee along with Nigoghos Tashjian, and Aristakes Hovannesian (1812-1878).^[1] After putting much work, Dndesian eventually published a five volume book in 1871 entitled Sharagan Tzainakryal or Sharagan Notations.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ray Ma, Jonathan (2004). Music, Ritual, and Diasporic Identity of the Armenian Apostolic Church (PDF). Maryland: University of Maryland: School of Music.
^ Ormanian, Maghiak (1955). G. Marcar Gregory (ed.). The Church of Armenia: Her History, Doctrine, Discipline, Liturgy, Literature, and Existing Condition. London: A.R. Mowbray and Co. Limited. pp. 71–75.

[Music,_Ritual,_and_Diasporic_Identity_of_the_Armenian_Apostolic_Church-1] Ray Ma, Jonathan (2004). Music, Ritual, and Diasporic Identity of the Armenian Apostolic Church (PDF). Maryland: University of Maryland: School of Music.

[2] Ormanian, Maghiak (1955). G. Marcar Gregory (ed.). The Church of Armenia: Her History, Doctrine, Discipline, Liturgy, Literature, and Existing Condition. London: A.R. Mowbray and Co. Limited. pp. 71–75.

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