Lecture on the compilation of the collection entitled “Dance and Song Folklore of Shirak: Games”

On April 3, another seminar of the Department of Folklore Textology was held in the conference hall of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia. The speaker was Hasmik Galstyan, a researcher of the department, Ph.D. in Philology. Together with Hasmik Harutyunyan, a senior researcher at the Shirak Center for Armenian Studies of the NAS RA and a musicologist (Ph.D in Art History), and Hasmik Matikyan, a researcher at the same center (Ph.D. in Philology), Galstyan initiated the compilation of the collection entitled “Dance and Song Folklore of Shirak: Games.” The seminar was dedicated to this project. During the event, the speakers discussed various questions and challenges that arose during the compilation process. The resulting book is a collection of folklore texts accompanied by a hand-written songbook.