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Assez surprenante la musique ancienne d'Egypte. Ça ne ressemble vraiment à rien que je connaisse. C'est très dommage que ce "channel" ne donne jamais aucun détail (d'où ça sort, de quand ça date, qui l'interprète etc..)

Sinon, je n'entends pas les cris d'enthousiasme autour de mon post sur Philip Glass?
Bon, je ne suis pas très étonné: Cette musique est très particulière. Mais tôt ou tard, je reviendrai à la charge avec ce compositeur que j'aime beaucoup.

People in Egypt, like other people in Africa, have probably been playing music since the early Stone Age, long before there is any definite evidence of it. The earliest definite evidence of music from Egypt comes from about 3100 BC, at the beginning of the Old Kingdom.
Because there wasn't any way of recording music or writing down notes in ancient Egypt, nobody knows what Egyptian music sounded like. From pictures, we do know what kind of instruments the Egyptians had. As you can see in this picture, there were stringed instruments like guitars and harps. There were also wind instruments like recorders or clarinets, with reeds for the mouthpiece like clarinets today, and by the New Kingdom there were bronze trumpets, too. The woman in the thin white dress is playing two recorders at the same time. And there were percussion instruments like drums and rattles, which is what the little kid is playing.

As the picture shows, a lot of Egyptian musicians were women (though not all of them). Music was a good opportunity for women to work at a skilled job. But just as women in the music industry do today, sometimes Egyptian women musicians had to wear thin or revealing clothes, and dance as well as singing. And many musicians were probably slaves.