Armenian Dances | |
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Part I & II | |
for concert band by Alfred Reed | |
Catalogue | UPC 654979034162 |
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Based on | Armenian folk music |
Publisher | C. L. Barnhouse Company |
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Movements | 4 |
Premiere | |
Date | January 10, 1973 |
Location | Urbana, Illinois |
Conductor | Dr. Harry Begian |
Performers | University of Illinois Symphonic Band |
Armenian Dances is a musical piece for concert band, written by Alfred Reed (1921–2005). It is a four-movement suite of which Part I comprises the first movement and Part II comprises the remaining three. The two parts comprise a full-length symphony. Each part consists of a number of Armenian folk songs from the collection of Komitas Vardapet (1869–1935), an Armenian ethnomusicologist.