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Weeping Mountain

At the light of Mount Ararat [3:25]

The “Weeping Mountain” music was written by Tigran Gabrielyan specifically for the movie «My Ararat», which includes only part of it.
Writing this song the author kept in mind a precise red thread: every morning every old Armenian man looks at the Ararat mountain, recalls the tragic events of the early 20th century (mainly the genocide by Turkish), recalls the history of his family and cries.
Thus was born the idea of creating a piece of art on Armenian roots.

Armenian Spiritual Music

The beginnings of Armenian spiritual music can be traced back to the 5th century, when Armenian spiritual writing also began to develop, particularly canons and songs under the shared name Sharakan. The most renowned fathers of the Armenian church took part in the writing of that liturgical book, beginning with Saints Saak-Partyanin, Mersop and Movses Khorenatsi in the 5th century and ending with Vardan the Great and Ioann Yerzenkaisky in the ...

The Cultural Meaning of Armenian Spiritual Music

In the interests of preparing priests, the monastic clergy gathered youths from various regions who, among other things, were taught to sing and remember the songs and then sent back to their various home towns to spread the church songs as they were meant to be performed. It's not hard to value the role these monastic pupils played: you just have to remember the oppression of the Turks and other Muslims, when Armenian monasteries were being d...