Timbre, sometimes known as “color” or “tone shade” is the standard or sound of a voice or instrument. Timbre is what makes a specific musical sound different from another, even when they have the identical pitch and loudness. Cymbals frequently accompanied music and dance, much as they still do in Egypt at present. Egyptian folks music, together with the normal Sufi dhikr rituals, are the closest up to date music style to historical Egyptian music, having preserved lots of its features, rhythms and instruments. The “Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal”, discovered on clay tablets that date back to approximately 1400 BC,…
- 10/10/2024
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