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Setenta y un minutos desde las pirámides de Guiza hasta una noche de jueves en El Cairo, donde el oud, el qanun, el nay y los panderos se encuentran con el violonchelo profundo.
Tradiciones
- The journey follows a route rather than a genre: Giza, the streets of Cairo, Alexandria, the Siwa oasis, the Nile, Luxor, Nubia and Abu Simbel, the desert road of Kharga, the Suez Canal and Sinai.
- It closes on a Thursday night in Cairo — the start of the Egyptian weekend, and the traditional night of music — in homage to the golden age of Egyptian song.
- Nubian music from the far south carries its own scales and its own language, distinct from the Arabic traditions of the north.
- The simsimiyya, a lyre of the Suez and Sinai coast, belongs to the Red Sea ports rather than to the Nile valley.
Instrumentos
- Oud — the fretless short-necked lute at the centre of Arabic music
- Qanun — plucked zither with levers for microtonal tuning
- Nay — end-blown reed flute
- Rababa — bowed spike fiddle of the countryside
- Mizmar — double-reed horn of celebration and procession
- Simsimiyya — lyre of the Suez and Sinai coast
- Frame drums — riq and tar, carrying the rhythmic cycles
- Cello — the recurring IGUNO voice beneath them all
Música de aquí
La historia
El relato escrito de este viaje todavía se está poniendo por escrito. La música, las tradiciones y los instrumentos de arriba están completos.