Yeghia Dndesian

Yeghia Dndesian ( Armenian Եղիա Տնտեսեան , born March 29, 1834 in Istanbul , Ottoman Empire , † 1881 ibid) was an Armenian musician and music reformer.

Yeghia Dndesian was an essential promoter of the Sharagan music style and musical notation in the liturgy of Armenian worship . He was engaged in research into medieval Armenian music. In April 1873 a committee - consisting of priests, clergymen and scribes - met in Istanbul to collect Sharagan melodies, to improve them, to recompose them and to effect the processing by means of notation. Dndesian was appointed to this committee along with Nigoghos Tashjian and Aristakes Hovannesian (1812–1878). After extensive preparatory work, Dndesian published a five-volume work in 1871 with the title Sharagan Tzainakryal (The Sharagan Notation).

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^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Jonathan Ray Ma: Music, Ritual, and Diasporic Identity of the Armenian Apostolic Church . University of Maryland: School of Music, Maryland 2004 ( online at: drum.lib.umd.edu [PDF]).
↑ Maghiak Ormanian: The Church of Armenia: Her History, Doctrine, Discipline, Liturgy, Literature, and Existing Condition . Ed .: G. Marcar Gregory. AR Mowbray and Co., London 1955, p. 71-75 .

personal data
SURNAME	Dndesian, Yeghia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Armenian musician and music reformer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 29, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH	Istanbul , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH	1881
Place of death	Istanbul , Ottoman Empire

[Music,_Ritual,_and_Diasporic_Identity_of_the_Armenian_Apostolic_Church-1] A ^b ^c ^d Jonathan Ray Ma: Music, Ritual, and Diasporic Identity of the Armenian Apostolic Church . University of Maryland: School of Music, Maryland 2004 ( online at: drum.lib.umd.edu [PDF]).

[2] Maghiak Ormanian: The Church of Armenia: Her History, Doctrine, Discipline, Liturgy, Literature, and Existing Condition . Ed .: G. Marcar Gregory. AR Mowbray and Co., London 1955, p. 71-75 .