Tigran Hamasyan – Piano Modes, Armenian – Rick Beato
What the clip says, in essence Rick Beato asks Tigran Hamasyan to demonstrate modal music. Tigran says Western musicians often think of modes as scales — Dorian, Aeolian, etc. — but Armenian music is different: it does not work through “tonic equivalence” in the same way. There is one tonic, and the music unfolds through … Read more
