Տաթեւիկ Շախկուլեան2025-11-282025-11-282009Շախկուլեան, Տ., «Որոշ զուգահեռներ Կոմիտասի եւ Բելա Բարտոկի միջեւ», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2009, Պէյրութ, էջ 359-365https://haigrepository.haigazian.edu.lb/handle/123456789/1004The article brings to light the various similarities and parallels that existed between the great Armenian and Hungarian musicologists, Komitas (1869-1935) and Bella Bartok (1881-1945). Both were the founders of their national polyphonic music, both were devout researchers and ethnographic song collectors, both were born outside their historic fatherland, yet both performed in their countries and abroad, died abroad and eventually were reburied in their fatherland. Both collected and studied folfloric songs and music and saved them from disappearance, and they loved and appreciated the music and songs of their neighboring nations, as they believed that music and songs of neighboring nations interact influence each other. This is why, alongside Armenian ethnographic songs, Komitas collected Kurdish, Greek, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Assyrian and other popular songs and music. Likewise, Bartok used to pay visits to neighboring nations, like the Romanians, Slovaks, Ukrainians, Serbs, Croats, and Turks. He too, like Komitas, highlighted the similarities and differences in his public lectures. Furthermore, both paid special attention to the minute and specific peculiarities of the music of each region and found that remote and distant villages were the best places to look for ethnographic songs, since these places were less influenced by foreign penetration and their music was well preserved. Both complained that their national music has been tarnished by foreign influence, and both created a unique national musical mentality and offered innovative ideas for the diverse particulars of music, including harmony, polyphony, rythm, etc. Having said this, it seems strange that these two contemporaneous musicologists never met and never referred to each other's works.