The Professor Doctor at the Faculty of Music Education, Helwan University, and Founder of the National Project for the Revival of Ancient Egyptian Music, had been frequenting Qena through Luxor for weeks in the early 1990s; yet, he had not visited any of the touristic locations. Music played a big role in Ancient Egypt,” Malt explained.According to Malt and Sherif Hamdy, Professor Doctor in Western Solfege Department at the Faculty of Music Education, Helwan University and Hieroglyphic singer in the Grandchildren of the Pharaohs musical troupe, Ancient Egyptian music had melodic modes, scale system musical sentence, harmony and specific instruments. I want to spread this knowledge.”Throughout his visits to Qena, Malt started to build a national project to revive Ancient Egyptian music. Eventually, in 2004, the European Union (EU) gave him a grant to form an international-Egyptian research team to investigate and explore Ancient Egyptian music. They need to listen to us while imaging themselves in Ancient Egypt, 7,000 years ago.

Source: Egypt Today December 14, 2018 15:00 UTC