He is an excellent composer indeed. He is using harmony in a very inventive way and also very correctly he must have studied the Tchaikovsky harmony book. The similarity must come from the fact that he was influenced by Armenian scales (he was Armenian and born in Georgia) and these scales have evolved together with Balkan and Mediterranean music that all use idioms of earlier Byzantine and Ancient Greek music. Here I am using a hybrid scale that is a blend of Phrygian and Dorian mode, the ancient Greek modes.
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He is an excellent composer indeed. He is using harmony in a very inventive way and also very correctly he must have studied the Tchaikovsky harmony book. The similarity must come from the fact that he was influenced by Armenian scales (he was Armenian and born in Georgia) and these scales have evolved together with Balkan and Mediterranean music that all use idioms of earlier Byzantine and Ancient Greek music. Here I am using a hybrid scale that is a blend of Phrygian and Dorian mode, the ancient Greek modes.