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This important book was compiled under the auspices of the Vano
Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire,International Research
Center for Traditional Polyphony in Tbilisi, Georgia. This
collection is aimed to those who are interested in Georgian
traditional polyphonic singing. It contains seventeen works of
seventeen authors, both foreign and Georgian scholars, written
throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Eleven of these works had
been published before (but not in English), and six of the articles
were written by contemporary scholars for this collection. Problems
of the origins, distribution, ethno-cultural interaction with other
cultures, identity, scales, harmony, issues of vocal and
instrumental polyphony are discussed in these articles. Georgian
traditional polyphony has long since become a symbol of the
complexity that traditional musical culture can achieve in creating
sophisticated forms of multi-part singing. In 2001 UNESCO
proclaimed Georgian polyphonic singing a "Masterpiece of the Oral
and Intangible Heritage of Humanity". Earlier, in 1977 Georgian
song Chakrulo was included among the very limited amount of
information about the Earth and its diverse cultures that was
launched into space. Georgia is becoming one of the international
centers of the study of the traditional polyphony.
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