The portraits of Faiyum | Rafael Pérez Arroyo, Hymn to the Seven Hathor

"Faces from the Past"
The portraits of Faiyum (Egypt - I th BC - II th AD)
Music: Hymn to the Seven Hathor (from 'Music in the Age of the Pyramids')
composed, arranged and conducted by Rafael Pérez Arroyo
Arroyo's Hathor Ensemble

Music in the Age of the Pyramids represents the first try of a reconstruction of the music of Ancient Egypt. After ten years of research carried out by the Spanish musicologist Rafael Pérez Arroyo, with the collaboration of Syra Bonet, the Centro de Estudios Egipcios has published a scientific works on the music, musicians, iconography, dance and musical instruments of Ancient Egypt.
The result of this research work is a book and a record entitled 'Music in the Age of Pyramids': the music is performed by Arroyo's Hathor Ensemble. The realization of the music by Arroyo was based on study of the metric structure of hymns which survive in writing, on discussion of music theory from heiroglyphics, sonic descriptions by ancient authors, and ancient iconography. Arroyo has also tried to decode the hand gestures (the same source used for Biblical music), and discovered three basic modes for Ancient Egyptian music.

More info: http://www.rafaelperezarroyo.com/eng/librosdiscos.htm

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Faiyum (Arabic: الفيوم‎) is a city in Middle Egypt and the capital of the Faiyum Governorate. It is 130 Km southwest of Cairo and occupies part of the ancient site of Crocodilopolis. Its name in English is also spelled as Fayum, Fayoum, Al Fayyum or El Faiyūm. It was formerly named Madīnet el Faiyūm. The name Faiyum may also refer to the Faiyum Oasis, although it is commonly used by Egyptians today to refer to the city.
The modern name of the city comes from Coptic 'efiom/peiom' (whence the proper name 'payoum'), meaning 'the Sea' or 'the Lake', which in turn comes from late Egyptian 'pA y-m' of the same meaning, a reference to the nearby Lake Moeris.
Faiyum is the source of some famous death masks or mummy portraits painted during the greek-roman occupation of the area. The Egyptians continued their practice of burying their dead, despite the Roman preference for cremation. While under the control of the Roman Empire, Egyptian death masks were painted on wood in a pigmented wax technique called encaustic: the Faiyum mummy portraits represent this technique.

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayum_mummy_portraits

In italian language: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritratti_del_Fayoum

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• Egypt
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• Ancient
• Pyramids
• Rafael Pérez Arroyo
• Hathor Ensemble

[nakinilerak]

Ahem - what's the gentleman at 5.10 holding in his hand?

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@nakinilerak

Is not what you are thinking...Is just a ritual form of bread.

[roudy1689]

how do there replicate the music? is there ancient sheet music? or is it a guess at melody etc.

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@roudy1689

You can find the answer above in "INFORMATION" about this video...

[STARCHYLDGOD]

@romanljc You can't read Egyptian hieroglyphics. So don't come with your bullshit stating that my ancestors enslaved people. In the biblical text it clearly says Mizraim is a child of Ham which is African not Semetic you fool. And I don't want to get into this biblical talk for it's nothing but a remake of the original Egyptian stories. The bible is nothing but written by the Greco-Romans. Don't come to me with this bullshit.

[STARCHYLDGOD]

@romanljc Yes dude, now I see you stepping up but too bad all your talks are a bunch of lies and I don't want to waste my time to put with your bullshit. First of all, Moors are not Arabs, they went to Europe along with the invasion of Arabs and they mixed with each other to have Arabic names. Secondly retard, South Italians are dark skinned, every Italian knows this fact including myself. They have dark olive and tanned skin and I know this because in my family, I have dark skinned relatives.

[romanljc]

All we know from there writings is that Egyptians invaded and inslaved black people exloploided them for there gold also at times they used them as allies in war but the civilztion culture was not a black one there language is semtic language like the Arabs and Jews and obouvisly they got alot of there idears from mesoptania a much older civilztion as well that they traded with Like I said why is there know great old advance civilztion like that in the all black parts Africa

[romanljc]

@STARCHYLDGOD Ankhhaf Inty-shedu Kai and his children Egyptian scribe statues Amenemhet lll Thutmose lll Amenhotep lll Ramses ll khafre 4th dynasty Khafre menkaure both pharaohs builder of the first great pyamids of Giza clearly not black These are some of the oldist statues and even back then they did not look black My guess is you are very dumb or a bad lier or both why are black making statues that clearly look like whites and Arabs then lol your a joke

[romanljc]

your a joke and you know the egyptian themselves in 3000 years never said they were black and they called the Nubians a bunch of savages as well there is not even one statue that looks black except one of black slaves with chains around there necks tuts tomb was full of them u could be a descedent of a slave or gotten there from Arab slave trade to like I said if blacks were capable of advance civilztion you would find it in the all black parts of Africa as well But u don't find shit there

[STARCHYLDGOD]

And I know this, due to my ethnicity background being part Italian (Greco-Roman).

[STARCHYLDGOD]

@romanljc There are African advance civilizations in Europe and in Africa. Check out the Dogon tribe and Yoruba tribe. Also check out Cretans of Greece, they were African Egyptians, The Moors built a high advance civilization in Spain, Portugal, Andorra, they built Castles, Homes, Bathrooms, Universities, Schools, Buildings etc. Also, there are the Etruscans of Rome, the African Indigenous people of Rome, Italy. That explains why Southern Italians are very dark skinned, especially the Sicilians.

[STARCHYLDGOD]

@romanljc The photo of Ankhhaf is nothing but a painted art sculpture. Is that your proof? Hahaha. African Egyptian are Indigenous to Egypt. Caucasians are nothing but savages and homosexuals that tried to manipulate Ancient Egypt. There aren't any slaves in Egypt, so don't be calling my people slaves now. Not because I caught you, does not mean you can now claim the Southern part of Egypt as being slaves, liar. The Moors of Spain, Portugal and Andorra even kept white slaves as their mannequin.