YEREVAN, OCTOBER 5. ARMINFO. The Armenian national wind instrument duduk will be included into the number of masterpieces of human cultural heritage, Secretary-General of the Armenian National Commission for UNESCO Karina Danielyan told ARMINFO.
She said that UNESCO headquarters perceived this idea positively, and already in November, 2004, a group of experts will present a collection of information on the ancient Armenian wind instrument duduk for inclusion into the program implemented by UNESCO “Proclamation of masterpieces of oral and nonmaterial cultural heritage of humanity.” The collection of information must contain a proof that duduk is a masterpiece of the Armenian wind culture, as musicians in many countries play on this instrument. However, it is acknowledged that it is made from an apricot tree, which is scientifically called “Prunus Armeniaca,” Danielyan said. One of the most important factors for its inclusion into the program is grounding that duduk’s existence will be endangered as a cultural phenomenon in case if it is not given every support. In this case, the stress will be put on the fact that modernization for commercial purposes affects the sounding of the instrument.
Karina Danielyan said that due to contribution of the Armenian Ministry for Cultural and Youth Affairs, two documentary films are shot, which contain materials on the first chronicle of origination of the instrument in Armenia. Duduk’s inclusion into the program of nonmaterial cultural heritage of UNESCO will create many opportunities for development of institutes wherein lessons of duduk will be given. An academy of duduk, a UNESCO department of duduk may be established, a class of duduk at the Yerevan Conservatory, she said. According to specialists in music, the world known duduk player Jivan Gasparyan played a great role in propaganda of duduk as a wind instrument. Gasparyan’s music sounds in a number of popular Hollywood movies, such as “Gladiator” and “Onegin.”
It should be noted that the first proclamation on the program was the Japanese theatre of shadows Kabuki in 1998. In the South Caucasus, the Georgian “polyphony” was the first to be included into the program, then goes Azerbaijani mugham.
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