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.