Gadalla, Moustafa

Egyptian Rhythm : The Heavenly Melodies

Table of Contents 5(5) Preface 10(2) Standards & Terminology 12(2) Chronology of Egyptian Dynasties 14(1) Map of Ancient Egypt and Surrounding Countries 15(1) Map of Egypt 16(3) I The Harmony of the Spheres Cosmic Consciousness 19(5) Eye on the Sky Harmony of the Spheres Music All the Time (24 hours, 7 days) 24(6) Energizing the Diatonic Week 30(9) The Natural Musical Scale The Two Energy Centers The Egyptian Dorian Scale Sabt, The Leader of the Band II The Harmonic Laws The Egyptian Roots of Harmonic Laws 39(5) Egypt's Ideal Laws and Plato The Egyptian Dor-ians Ma-at, The Law of Balance 44(2) Tehuti, The Divine Sound 46(5) Orderly Sounds Language and/of Music Tehuti, The Master of Eight (Octave) The Musical Model 51(4) The Rhythms of the Three Seasons The Complete Year The Musical Dynamo (Auset and Ausar) 55(10) Panta (All) is a Derivative of Pente (Five) Progression of the Harmonic Marriage (Counting by Fives) III Musical Formulations The Musical Measuring Unit 65(6) The Egyptian Musical Complement The Egyptian Musical Measuring Units The Comma, Buk-nunu, and the Siamese Twins The Comma and the Musical Instruments The Musical Framework Varieties 71(6) The Overall Tone System The 17-Tone (Ausar) Cyclic Framework The 22-Tone (Het-Heru) Divisive Framework Musical Structure and Forms 77(9) Moods and Modes Design Characteristics of Modes The Written Sounds The Musical Performance 86(11) The Harmonic Merit Hand The Rhythmic Timing IIII Musical Instruments The Wealth of Instruments 97(6) The Egyptian Instruments General Characteristics of Egyptian Instruments The Musical Orchestra Stringed Instruments 103(22) General Lyres Tri-gonon / Tri-Ka-Nun (Zither) Harps General Harp Playing Techniques The All-Encompassing Capacities of Ancient Egyptian Harps Tanboura (String Instruments with Neck) General Two-Strings Three-Strings Four-Strings Short-Neck Lute The Egyptian Guitars A Few Examples of Tanboura Variety Bowed Instruments [Kamanga, Rababa] Wind Instruments 125(16) General The Magic Nay (End-Blown Flute) Transverse Flute Pan Flute Single Reed Pipe (Clarinet) Double Pipe Double Clarinet Double Oboe Arghool Others (Bagpipe and Organ) The Twin Horns/Trumpets Percussion Instruments 141(14) Membrano-Phone Instruments Drums Tambourines Non-Membrano-Phone (Idiophone) Instruments Percussion Sticks Clappers Sistrums/Sistra Cymbals Castanets Bells (Chimes) Xylophone and Glockenspiel Human Parts (hands, fingers, thighs, feet, etc) IIIII Maintaining the Heavenly Rhythms The Universal Harmony 155(5) The Universal Musical Balance The Theme of Balanced Polarity The Dor-ian Musical Suites The Vocal Powers 160(5) Generating Sounds Vocal Music Themes Rhythmic Dancing 165(7) The Lord of the [Song and] Dance Dancing Types Dancing Formations The Harmonic Practices 172(9) Musicians in Ancient (and Present-Day) Egypt The Temple Musical Activities The Annual Musical Pilgrimage Public Activities The Harmonic Sound Man 181(5) The Earthly Voyage Death and Resurrection And the Beat Goes On 186(26) Appendices A. Western Musical Tampering (Not Tempering) 191(2) B. The Noise Makers 193(5) C. The Pan-Grecian Conceit 198(6) D. Pre-Islam Asiatic Neighbors 204(5) E. The Post-Islam Arabized/Islamized World 209(3) Glossary 212(4) Selected Bibliography 216(3) Sources & Notes 219(8) Index 227(10) About TRF Books 237(3) Ordering Information 240