Posted on 05/25/2018 11:37:19 AM PDT by mairdie
An art history look at Ancient Egyptian Art to 'Sumerians, Egyptians and Greeks' and 'Ankh, the Sound of Ancient Egypt'. From Pre-Dynastic Period to Late Period.
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Good stuff. And the music was as far advanced from Gangsta Rap as their art was ahead of the ...er...stuff currently infesting modern galleries. Go figure.
Thanks. Amazing what they could do back then. What does the Chicago oriental museum have?
I’m no student of these ages (though I did study ancient Egypt for a number of years) but...ancient music? Determined how? Notation? Certainly not recordings.
Certainly not recordings. But as I was searching I kept finding articles by students describing ancient manuscripts and paintings. I was surprised at the detail they were able to pull from what they were studying.
A lot of Assyrian. The Archimedean gold treasure. They let us buy solid gold replicas! There are monuments where they had to take out a wall to bring it in.
And I have to say that that picture looks EXACTLY the way it looked when I docented in 1967 - 51 years ago!
I thought as much but...I’m just wondering what type of notation “language” was used back then. And how anyone could decipher it. Unless these manuscripts and painting left instructions. No doubt a lot of work involved in gleaning the necessary information.
Not my field of expertise. I had enough trouble learning how to correct handwritten music manuscripts that I was transcribing into the Mozart software program. I don’t play an instrument and it had to be an algorithm I followed. A musicology professor taught me to make the corrections, and I taught her to use Mozart. Fun, but really Greek. If not Eguptian.
From Wikipedia:
Old Kingdom
The evidence is for instruments played more securely attested in the Old Kingdom when harps, flutes and double clarinets were played.[citation needed] Percussion instruments and lutes were added to orchestras by the Middle Kingdom. Cymbals frequently accompanied music and dance, much as they still do in Egypt today.
Typically ancient Egyptian music was composed from the phrygian dominant scale, phrygian scale, double harmonic scale (Arabic scale) or lydian scale.[citation needed] The phrygian dominant scale may often feature an altered note or two in parts to create tension. For instance the music could typically be in the key of E phrygian dominant using the notes E, F, G sharp, A, B, C, D and then have an A sharp, B, A sharp, G natural and E to create tension.
Medieval music
Early Arabic music was influenced by Byzantine and Persian forms, which were themselves heavily influenced by earlier Greek, Semitic, and Ancient Egyptian music.
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Thanks Mary for another wonderful video.
I’m so very glad you liked it, nwrep. It feels so good to remember the red pots and the arm around each other statues. But so sad in the portrait video to see people looking in your eyes and know that you only see them because they died.
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You spent your docent time wisely! I love the art collection presentation and the music chosen within the context of a history summary. Thank you for doing this and keep ‘em coming!
Enjoyed the video, you do an awesome job. It’s like going to the museum from the comfort of my home.
I’m so very pleased you like it, TEX. I’ve started collecting manuscript illuminations already. Fingers crossed I can figure out what to do with them.
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