Ancient Egyptian music (Was: Arabic music for Jews)

Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:39:09 +0200
Newsgroups: rec.music.arabic
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>>>>> "meeso" == meeso <email-address-deleted> writes: meeso> a very *little* research have been done on the issue of *Egyptian meeso> music* & its history.. most of it was done by non-Egyptians meeso> (Britain & USA). [...] in Egypt, lots of people believe that meeso> *Coptic music* is nearer to Egyptian music (exactly as meeso> rhayat). [...] the relation between the music of the Coptic church meeso> & ancient Egyptian music is in a real state of questioning. [...] meeso> further research must be done in the field of popular folk Egyptian meeso> music in order to findout whether it has its own roots into Ancient meeso> Egyptian music or not Maysara, I'm far from being any kind of expert on this field, but my ... intuition ... made me agree with what you write. There is that CD: "musique au temps des pyramides" by Rafael Perez Arroyo (Spain) (NAR-0011-02) which claim to be, as the result of 10 year of research (which is certainly true), the (re) discover of music of ancient Egyptian time. It is mainly based - among others - on Coptic liturgic melodies and some ethnics rhythms. But IMHO this CD is only one phantasm of what ancient Egyptian music should be, at least it really sound like that ;-) ...
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