Pomp and Circumstance - Graduation Songs

Many Armenians were educated in muses. at the department of the Russian Muses. Society in Tbilisi (1878). Conc. a life. Along with the activation of Nar. performers (associations of ashugs, performers in duduk, containers, kamancha, folk singers, etc. ) the first musicians appear who have graduated from Russian and foreign conservatories, various instrumental ensembles and small symphony are created. orchestras (orchestra under the “Knar Haykakan” society, Sinanyan Orchestra - 1888). The genres of solo and choral songs and romances are developing in the works of N. Tashchyan, G. Eranyan, E. Tntesyan, T. Chukhajyan, G. O. Korganova, instr. music (Korganov, Chukhadzhyan). The songs are patriotic. The content was widely used in dramatic. theater (in 1863, songs by G. Abovyan were published in Tbilisi). From the middle of the 19th century arm music comes into close contact with progressive rus. musesculture and begins to develop under the influence of its realistic. and democratic. traditions, with the direct help of the masters of Russian. musesart.