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Ancient Egyptian Music |
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Music has been a part of Egyptian culture probably since the beginning of the nation and had much attention since the 1st dynasty. Tomb and temple paintings show various musical instruments in both sacred and secular environments. Many of the dead were also buried with instruments. This leads to the thought that music formed was a great part of not only Egyptian rituals, but also daily life,hymns, prayers, and recreation.Categories of musical instruments percussion, wind and stringed were represented in ancient Egypt. |
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Musical Instruments |
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Percussion instruments:
1) Hand-held drums
2) Bells - first used during the Late Kingdom
3) The sistrum - important rattle used in religious worship
4) cymbals - used in temples in the Ptolemaic Period
Wind instruments:
1) Ugab - a vertical flute among first musical instruments used
2) Hasosra - a trumpet
3) Shofar - a ram's or goat's horn
Stringed instruments:
1) Kinnor a lyre similar to the kithara
2) Harps - developed from hunting bows in the Old Kingdom
3) Lutes - plucked rather than bowed
Instruments were frequently inscribed with the name of the owner and decorated with representations of the goddess Hathor of music. |
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A scene showing Egyptian women playing Harps |
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Scene showing a male on the left playing a flue, and on the right a parallel double pipe |
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A more complex instrument to produce was the trumpet, such as that found in the tomb of Tutankhamun. These were made of silver and bronze. |
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