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Soixante et onze minutes, des pyramides de Gizeh à un jeudi soir au Caire, où le oud, le qanûn, le ney et les tambours sur cadre rencontrent le violoncelle grave.
Traditions
- 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.
Instruments
- 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
La musique d'ici
Le récit
Le récit écrit de ce voyage est encore en cours d'écriture. La musique, les traditions et les instruments ci-dessus sont complets.