The song has dance rhythms and ornamentation that make it an impressive, catchy tune. This lively, lyric love song depicts a young man singing the praises of his beloved Nazan (a girl's name). "Hoy Nazan Eem" was published in 1908 in a choral version arranged by Gomidas. It has a simple, delicate melodie that might perhaps be thought of as depicting the tiny steps of the partidge.
He originally arranged it for solo voice and children's choir and later for solo voice with piano accompaniment. "The Partridge's Song" is an original song by Gomidas it was published in 1908 in Tiflis, Georgia. Its declamatory beginning, rhythmic vitality, and ornamentation make this song highly expressive. "The Apricot Tree" consist of three organically connected songs that were transcribed in 1904. In order of their appearance in the score, they are: "Tzirani Tzar" (The Apricot Tree", "Gakavi Yerk" (Partidge's Song), "Hoy, Nazan Eem" (Hoy, my Nazan), "Alagyaz" and "Gna, Gna" (Go, Go). Part I of "Armenian Dances" is built upon five Armenian folk songs, which were first notated, purified, researched, and later arranged by Gomidas Vartabed for solo voice with piano accompaniment or unaccompanied chorus. It is hoped that this new instrumental setting will prove to be at least a small step in this direction. Nevertheless, it is hoped that the overall effect of the music will be found to remain true in spirit to the work of this brilliant composer-musicologist, who almost single-handedly preserved and gave to the world a treasure trove of beautiful folk music that to this day has not yet beome as widely known in the Western world as it so richly deserves.
While the composer has kept his treatment of the melodies within the general limits imposed on the music by its very nature, he has not hesitated to expand the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic possibilities in keeping with the demands of a symphonic-instrumental, as opposed to an individual vocal or choral approach to is performance. Part I, containing the first movement of this suite (the remaining three movements constituting Part II), is an extended symphonic rhapsody built upon five different songs, freely treated and developed in terms of the modern integrated concert band or wind ensemble. "Armenian Dances", Parts I and II, constitute a four-movement suite for concert band or wind ensemble based on authentic armenian folk songs from the collected works of Gomidas Vartabed (1869-1935), the founder of Armenian classical music.
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