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Ancient Egyptian Music By: AR

Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 00:57:24
Category: / Arts & Humanities / Music
Length: 2 pages (528 words)
Views: 196235

For many centuries, ancient Egyptian music has been played on a minor pentatonic scale, with five full tones. As time went by however, Egyptian music began to change due to the foreign invasion that brought Egyptians into contact with the Asiatic culture. During the third century BCE, the Greeks settled in Delta, and had an even greater impact on Egyptian music than the Asiatic culture. One such example is, Pythagoras, who developed music theory based …

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