Pharaonic Range

The Pharaonic ranges are, according to a discussed theory, the ancestors of the ranges pythagoricians and in consequence of the whole of the Western ranges.

Genesis of the theory

The whole of the experts in musicology agree on the fact that the hellenistic Greece is the cradle of the modern music in that one owes him the musical theory, the range pythagorician and especially the importance of the music in the daily newspaper of the company. However two theories clash as for the origin of these precepts among Greeks.

Most commonly allowed stipulates that the Greek music at the hellenistic period is the heritage of the pre-hellénistique civilization which also lived in Greece, and would have taken its rise under the influence of minor Asia, the pythagorician S having then invented the range which bears their name and having exported it in Egypt.

The theory of Fathi Saleh

This one is based on the work carried out in partnership with Mahmoud Effat, flutist of reputation, and the museum of Cairo, bearing on the study of flutes going back to times of the ancient Egypt. They will redécouvrir the way in that in which were played these flutes (of which the Eastern nay seems to be the closest relationship) for then studying the sound of it. By the study of the notes obtained via the ear of musical experts and of the spectra of associated Fourier, the team of Fathi Saleh comes to the following conclusions:

the diatonic range would not be an importation of the Greeks, but rather the reverse within sight of the age of the studied flutes;
another range with seven notes similar to that used in the Arab music was also used by the Egyptians, whose origin was hitherto allotted to Persians.

In addition to these results, the team of Saleh noticed an astonishing regularity in the frequencies produced by the flutes, suggesting the existence of a system of calibration for those.

See too

External bonds

article of Al-Ahram Hebdo on the theories of Fathi Saleh on the matter.
article having the method and the results of the study of the Egyptian flutes.

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