In traditional Armenian music-poetry, the manifestations of Gusan and Ashugh art very often are not differentiated. The lack of clarity on this issue is a consequence of disregarding the main characteristics of these expressions of traditional art, along with the lack of research on Gusan art in general. The absence of a clear distinction between the folk and folk-professional (secular-professional) branches of Armenian traditional musical-poetical art is also important, due to its relation to the differentiation between Gusan and Ashugh art, representing two areas of folk-professional branch.

Keywords folk– professional secular professional Gusan Ashugh “Ergqkՙ cՙcՙocՙ ev parucՙ” “Hagnergutyun” (rhapsody ῥαψῳδία) horeia (χορεία).