Volume I 

Compiled by Stepan Rostomyan (editor), Khoren Palyan, Aram Petrosyan, Sona Hovhannisyan

Introduction by Anna Arevshatyan, Levon Hakobyan

1997, 514 pp. (in Armenian)

This is the first volume of a scientific edition of one of the official books of the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Hymnal, generally called in Armenian "Sharaknots", that is, "Book of Sharakans". The compilers of the book have compared the 19th century edition of the Sharaknots, recorded by N. Tashchyan in the Armenian Church notational system, with other editions and versions found in manuscripts, transcribing the hymns into European music notes. The Introduction is devoted to the history of Armenian Church music generally, and of the sharakans, particularly. This first volume includes more than 20 canons for the following feasts and saints' days: the Birth and the Annunciation of the Holy Mother of God, the Theophany, the Presentation of the Lord to the Temple, Anthony the Great, Kings Theodosius, Trdat, David the Prophet and James the Brother of the Lord, Stephen the Protomartyr, the Apostles Peter, Paul, John and James, All Apostles, the Twelve Apostles, the Seventy-Two Disciples.

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