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Today, meet Zulal, a trio whose songs tell stories of traditional village life in Armenia, where girls cast fortunes by moonlight, morning smoke rises from the hearth, and young brides weave golden threads through their hair as others spin wool into gossip.
These songs were traditionally sung together in unison, accompanied by a single instrument. Over time, polyphony—multiple voices singing in harmony—began to emerge; in the early 1900s, composer, ethnomusicologist, and priest Komitas Vartabed refined that practice. Zulal follows in Komitas’s footsteps, reinventing traditional songs by adding new harmonies.
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