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Music Bands in the Old Kingdom

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Tags

• Archaeology

Abstract

The Egyptians loved music and it apparently played an important part in their lives, this is demonstrated on the walls of tombs and temples as early as the Old Kingdom whether in private banquets or in religious contexts, under the offering table of the deceased. Egyptian- musical instruments were well developed and varied. The music scenes of the Old Kingdom included string instruments like different types of harps, percussion instruments like clappers and rattles, wind instruments like flutes, clarinets, double pipes. Music-bands appear on walls as early as the 5th dynasty, some of which were male or female bands or even mixed bands, the number of musicians differed as well. This paper is concerned with the formation of music bands in the Old Kingdom in relation to participants' gender and number, how they are seated also musical instruments used, their designation in the ancient Egyptian language. The study ends with a conclusion.

DOI

10.21608/sis.2020.40171.1000

Keywords

Music-bands, Music Instruments, old kingdom

Authors

First Name

Tarneem

Last Name

Bayoumy

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Department of tourism management and cultural heritage, faculty of tourism and hotels, Matrouh university

Email

tarneem.bayoumy@yahoo.com

City

Alexandria

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Volume

1

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

18721

Issue Date

2020-11-01

Receive Date

2020-08-22

Publish Date

2020-11-01

Page Start

40

Page End

54

Print ISSN

2682-4329

Online ISSN

2735-3044

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3

Type

Original Research

Type Code

1,291

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Journal of Tourism, Hotels and Heritage

Publication Link

https://sjs.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Music Bands in the Old Kingdom

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Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023