 All musicians and composers are bearers of their culture, with composers such as the Armenian Aram Khachaturian serving to both maintain and enhance their homeland's culture through music.However, Chechen musicians play an unusually active societal role, gaining high status in consequence.While they played the usual role of conveying “romantic words of love and the mysteries of life”,[20] they also functioned as history's scribes; exempt from battle, their role was solely “to watch and ‘record’” the scene,[21] creating musical monuments to commemorate past heroes and battles.