By popular demand… I went and made a list of 30 essential bigband records. These are all albums that I think anyone interested in large ensemble jazz — and particularly anyone interested in writing for this format — will find very rewarding. I know they have been for me!

weird medieval guys One of the best examples is the great myth of the “tritone ban”, which claimed that in the medieval era, churches banned certain note intervals because they believed it was Satan incarnate or something. Adam Neely did a great video on this. youtu.be/3MhwGnq4N9o

Armenian MS 11, folio 11 verso Missal, 1712, showing the celebrant bringing the chalice to the altar (The Great Entrance) #Armenian #Manuscript

Forbes has included the "Khosrov Forest State Reserve" and "Dilijan National Park" in #Armenia among the five “captivating natural wonders” to visit in the Caucasus.

The Gospel of John, in Armenian, leaves from an extremely early Biblical codex on vellum 9th-12th c. #Armenian #Manuscript #Gospel #John

Yereruyk cathedral in #Armenia, one of the oldest #Christian monuments, 4-6th centuries.

How can #Urartians be #Armenians if they spoke a non-Armenian language? Here is why this question is misleading: 1) Literacy rates were next to zero in the antiquity. Records don’t reflect the spoken language of all people. Scripture was a tool of the administrators, like math

Tushpa and Biaina survived in Armenian #Tushpa or Tospa was the ancient capital city of the #Armenian kingdom of #Van (a.k.a. #Urartu). These Armenian toponyms survived on #Greek and #Roman maps of #Armenia for many centuries.

Check out a recent article by ⁦Guitar Salon⁩ on my recent duet with guitarist Grygorii Koval. “Grygorii Koval and Marina Hovhannisyan Record a Medieval Ukrainian Lullaby on a Youri Soroka Guitar made with Medieval Wood!” guitarsalon.com/blog/grygorii-…

Araratian (Urartian) fresco, from the 8th Century BC, Erebuni fortress, Yerevan, Armenia. An eternity wheel in the middle guarded by two lions, one of the insignia’s of the kings of Armenia, possibly Argishti I, the founder of the Erebuni fortress. - Subscribe for Weekly

Massimo The Hampi Musical Pillars, also known as the Saunsi Mahal, are a group of stone pillars located in the ruins of the ancient city of Hampi, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Hampi was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire during its zenith in the 14th to 16th centuries

Bonjour à tous 👋 L’Urartu est un royaume très méconnu du Proche-Orient ancien. Situé en Anatolie Orientale, il fut le rival de l’Empire assyrien au même titre que le royaume de Babylone, si ce n’est plus. C’est son histoire que je vous propose de voir aujourd’hui 🧵

Part of a throne with deity on a bull ca. late 8th–7th century B.C. #Urartu, probably from #Toprakkale The Metropolitan Museum of Art