Armenian Dances
Musical composition by Alfred Reed / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the traditional dancing, see Armenian dance.
Armenian Dances is a musical piece for concert band, written by Alfred Reed (1921–2005). It is a four-movement suite of which Part I comprises the first movement and Part II comprises the remaining three. Each part consists of a number of Armenian folk songs from the collection of Komitas Vardapet (1869–1935), an Armenian ethnomusicologist.