Egypt
- Egyptian Music's Ancient Past Resurrected ?
Al Masry Al Youm With photos. Last Wednesday, ancient met modern at El Sawy Culture Wheel when the band Welad el-Faraana (Children of the Pharaohs), wearing jeans and t-shirts and playing pharaonic and Nubian instruments, resurrected the music of their...
- New Book: The Life Of Meresamun - A Temple Singer In Ancient Egypt
Oriental Institute This companion volume and catalog to the exhibit that opens on February 9, 2009, traces the life of Meresamun whose mummy, dating to about 800 B.C., is one of the highlights of the Oriental Institute’s Museum. The text introduces...
- Musical Cd: Ancient Egypt, A Tribute
Artist Direct I didn't know whether to classify this as trivia, Egyptomania or what! This musical tribute to ancient Egypt was originally composed in 1978 for the King Tutankhamun exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum. It was inspired by the artistry...
- Saturday Trivia
Age of Mythologyhttp://play.tm/story/833"Drawing on the well-established mythos of three distinct cultures, Ensemble have created a real-time strategy game that is not too radical a departure for RTS traditionalists, but is at the same time innovative...
- Pharaonic Music
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/2/ "In cooperation with the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), the Faculty of Music at Helwan University will offer a diploma course in Pharaonic music as of next September, an official said."The purpose of the...
Egypt
Saturday Trivia
Book Review: Scott Marcus’ Music in Egypt (OUP)
http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/review.php?id=425
I don't mean to imply that this is trivial, by putting it in this slot, but this review has nothing to do with Egyptology, but I thought it might be of interest to some visitors so it seemed appropriate to take it out of the main blog. This review looks at a book devoted to what appears to be a really fascinating subject matter: a number of different types of modern Egyptian music: "As the nineteenth instalment of the series, Scott Marcus’ Music in Egypt provides an excellent overview of Egyptian music. The work can be read on two levels--first as an introductory text on Egyptian music, and second as an ethnomusicologist’s analysis of seemingly unconnected musical practices. Marcus conceived the volume around three themes, which are clearly and repeatedly emphasized throughout: 1) the basis of Egyptian music in melodic and rhythmic modes (maqamat and iqa’at); 2) the cultural acceptance of constant musical change; and 3) the complex relationship between music and Islam in Egypt. Marcus gracefully integrates these themes into the text, using them to tie apparently unrelated examples together into a comprehensible soundscape."
See the above page for the full review by Deborah Justice.
http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/review.php?id=425
I don't mean to imply that this is trivial, by putting it in this slot, but this review has nothing to do with Egyptology, but I thought it might be of interest to some visitors so it seemed appropriate to take it out of the main blog. This review looks at a book devoted to what appears to be a really fascinating subject matter: a number of different types of modern Egyptian music: "As the nineteenth instalment of the series, Scott Marcus’ Music in Egypt provides an excellent overview of Egyptian music. The work can be read on two levels--first as an introductory text on Egyptian music, and second as an ethnomusicologist’s analysis of seemingly unconnected musical practices. Marcus conceived the volume around three themes, which are clearly and repeatedly emphasized throughout: 1) the basis of Egyptian music in melodic and rhythmic modes (maqamat and iqa’at); 2) the cultural acceptance of constant musical change; and 3) the complex relationship between music and Islam in Egypt. Marcus gracefully integrates these themes into the text, using them to tie apparently unrelated examples together into a comprehensible soundscape."
See the above page for the full review by Deborah Justice.
- Egyptian Music's Ancient Past Resurrected ?
Al Masry Al Youm With photos. Last Wednesday, ancient met modern at El Sawy Culture Wheel when the band Welad el-Faraana (Children of the Pharaohs), wearing jeans and t-shirts and playing pharaonic and Nubian instruments, resurrected the music of their...
- New Book: The Life Of Meresamun - A Temple Singer In Ancient Egypt
Oriental Institute This companion volume and catalog to the exhibit that opens on February 9, 2009, traces the life of Meresamun whose mummy, dating to about 800 B.C., is one of the highlights of the Oriental Institute’s Museum. The text introduces...
- Musical Cd: Ancient Egypt, A Tribute
Artist Direct I didn't know whether to classify this as trivia, Egyptomania or what! This musical tribute to ancient Egypt was originally composed in 1978 for the King Tutankhamun exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum. It was inspired by the artistry...
- Saturday Trivia
Age of Mythologyhttp://play.tm/story/833"Drawing on the well-established mythos of three distinct cultures, Ensemble have created a real-time strategy game that is not too radical a departure for RTS traditionalists, but is at the same time innovative...
- Pharaonic Music
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/2/ "In cooperation with the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), the Faculty of Music at Helwan University will offer a diploma course in Pharaonic music as of next September, an official said."The purpose of the...