Facts about Music in the Ancient Egyptian Era

 Music in the Ancient Egyptian Era

A recent study shows that ancient Egypt was home to many lyricists who mastered the art of music around 5,000 years ago. Ancient Egyptian musical songs and melodies may have been lost forever, but archaeologists have discovered evidence suggesting that skilled musicians existed at the time of the rise of ancient Egyptian civilization in 3100 BC.

Ancient tomb murals dating back more than 5,000 years indicate that Egyptians played a wide range of percussion and stringed instruments, and archaeologist and author Katarzyna Tatu told the Polish News Agency (PAP) that Egyptians played many musical instruments, some of which have survived: guitars, Egyptian flutes and clarinets.

The ancient Egyptian knew music since prehistoric times, as the long flute “flute flute” appeared in prehistoric inscriptions, and the ancient Egyptians knew the “jingle” or what is called “Lyre” since the Fourth Dynasty and made the goddess “Hathor” their idol, and the Egyptians also knew the Egyptians knew instruments of all kinds such as woodwind, percussion, and stringed instruments.

The ancient Egyptians also knew instruments of all kinds, such as wind, percussion, and stringed instruments, the most important of which are the harp, oud, nay, flute, oboe, drum, sajas, clappers, and sistrums, most of which are still used in Egypt today, especially in the rural community.

Inscriptions bearing the names of musicians, minstrels, and painters appeared on the walls of temples and tombs, and there were musical bands for men only, and there were musical bands for women only, and the soloist and the soloist appeared, and men and women exchanged musical instruments, and men sang and women sang and danced as best they could Dancing and singing, to emphasize that even though the afterlife was their main concern, they enjoyed their world, so they sang and sang to them and spread the joy that enveloped the Egyptian civilization with this wonderful belonging to it, and this unique human society that did not touch violence neither in its heart nor in its mind.

The ancient and modern Egyptian peasant listened to music and singing while plowing, planting and harvesting the land, and the animals used in agriculture had a collar around their necks with some instruments that made music, adding that when architectural structures such as temples and tombs began, and sculptors, engravers and painters began practicing their work, as well as craftsmen, music and singing accompanied artists, workers and craftsmen as they performed their work.