Voyage of Vibrant Verses, A European Soundscape Komitas / Aslamazyan, Miniatures Rustic, naive, and ritualistic melodies, ballads, or epic songs… Komitas (1869-1935), an ethnomusicologist, traveled extensively throughout the Caucasus in search of folk melodies, collecting nearly three thousand of them. Sergey Aslamazyan, a Moscow cellist and founder of the Komitas Quartet, arranged fourteen of these […]