Is “Egyptian” music shown in movies etc. historically accurate in terms of instruments used? Like this one where the author claims to be “ancient” as well.
Is “Egyptian” music shown in movies etc. historically accurate in terms of instruments used? Like this one where the author claims to be “ancient” as well.
The Wikipedia article music of Egypt has a decent section on ancient music in the history portion.
But it’s important to remember that ancient Egyptian history is incredibly long and varied. It’s hard to pin down musical styles over thousands of years. The reality is that we don’t really know what the music sounded like, so educated guesses are the closest we can get. Notation would not be invented for thousands of years.
The instruments they used provide most of the insight that we have. Here’s a YouTube video of some people playing reconstructions of period instruments. This would just be a guess at the music, but it is at least informed by later tradition from around the region.
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Every once in a while I’m reminded of how long “ancient Egypt” lasted and how little meaning that phrase really has and I need to sit down.
What? It only lasted about a century longer than Iranians have been in Persia to now. Or than the Latin tribe has been in Italy. Or than rice has been cultivated in Vietnam.
Oh and all those things happened 2/3 of the way through ancient Egypt.