Farms: Ancient Egyptian Music - Lotus on the Nile
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From New England comes Douglas Irvine, a composer, sound artist and instrument maker, the sounds that he creates are inspired on the musical traditions of ancient Middle Eastern cultures, like ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. This record have a great aura, with different sensations, its ritualistic, relaxed, deep, dark, ethereal and mystic. This are some of the old instruments that you could ear on this great record that e real advice: bass lyre, bells and miscellaneous percussions, shoulder harp, clappers, pan pipes, double Oboe etc. Ambient Egypt is a varied collection of musical soundscapes inspired by ancient Egyptian traditions. Although music existed in prehistoric Egypt, the evidence for it becomes secure only in the historical (or "dynastic" or "pharaonic") period--after 3100 BCE. Music formed an important part of Egyptian life, and musicians occupied a variety of positions in Egyptian society. Music found its way into many contexts in Egypt: temples, palaces, workshops, farms, battlefields and the tomb. Music was an integral part of religious worship in ancient Egypt, so it is not surprising that there were gods specifically associated with music, such as Hathor and Bes (both were also associated with dance, fertility and childbirth). All the major categories of musical instruments (percussion, wind, stringed) were represented in pharaonic Egypt. Percussion instruments included hand-held drums, rattles, castanets, bells, and the sistrum--a highly important rattle used in religious worship. Hand clapping too was used as a rhythmic accompaniment. Wind instruments included flutes (double and single, with reeds and without) and trumpets. Stringed instruments included harps, lyres, and lutes--plucked rather than bowed. Instruments were frequently inscribed with the name of the owner and decorated with representations of the goddess (Hathor) or god (Bes) of music. Both male and female voices were also frequently used in Egyptian music. Professional musicians existed on a number of social levels in ancient Egypt. Perhaps the highest status belonged to temple musicians; the office of "musician" (shemayet) to a particular god or goddess was a position of high status frequently held by women. Musicians connected with the royal household were held in high esteem, as were certain gifted singers and harp players. Somewhat lower on the social scale were musicians who acted as entertainers for parties and festivals, frequently accompanied by dancers. Informal singing is suggested by scenes of workers in action; captions to many of these pictures have been interpreted as words of songs. Otherwise there is little evidence for the amateur musician in pharaonic Egypt, and it is unlikely that musical achievement was seen as a desirable goal for individuals who were not professionals. The ancient Egyptians did not notate their music before the Graeco-Roman period, so attempts to reconstruct pharaonic music remain speculative. Representational evidence can give a general idea of the sound of Egyptian music. Ritual temple music was largely a matter of the rattling of the sistrum, accompanied by voice, sometimes with harp and/or percussion. Party/festival scenes show ensembles of instruments (lyres, lutes, double and single reed flutes, clappers, drums) and the presence (or absence) of singers in a variety of situations.
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mmm yaazz☆☆☆
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need drums
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The ancient Egyptian elite played ceremonial music and chants like this while in secret meditation in the pyramids to increase the size and amplitude of their pineal glands/third eye in the brain, making them smarter, more creative and more aware of other dimensions. The pyramids were designed to amplify the frequency of the sounds and chants they used. This was the most secret of knowledge and only passed down by the elite bloodlines, kept secret from the masses who were enslaved. any person can do the same with meditation and devout focus on opening and nourishing the third eye with cosmic and earthly energies.
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🔥🔥
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Ancient Kemet was an African civilization established by Nubians. Just wanted to correct some innuendo. http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/kemet/
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Very valuable text, but I could not connect it music of the post.
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Natural Mystic ¿
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I seen this and i only think egyptian was satanic with their false god, ONLY the god of the bible is true
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7:20 Marge Simpson, is that you?
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somalian shaped heads/ pre somalian genocide
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Never heard such a thing!!really great!
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beutiful
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WHAT SO WONDERFUL MUSIC...THANKS TO WHO POST IT.....
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The Egyptians were certainly not black. To suggest they were black is simply absurd. Take a look at the Nefertiti statue. She has very light skin and a thin nose, thin lips, an angular and thin face.
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Everybody wants to be an African but don't want to except the history that goes along with it.
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"the sounds that he creates are inspired on the musical traditions of ancient Middle Eastern cultures, like ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia"
Don't call it ancient music then -
una palabra para el Antiguo Egipto y su cultura = BELLA
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what is that sound at 1:25?
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This wouldn't sound out of place on Game Of Thrones.
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i chill out to this awesome music with my microwavable corn bag i got from kernel relif keep up the good music