The first orchestra in history
The first orchestra in history was Egyptian. This wonderful mural is from the tomb of Geserkare Seneb, a scribe in the Temple of Amun.
From the reign of King Tuthmosis IV of the Eighteenth Dynasty, the New Kingdom, around 1400 BC
We see a band of female instrumentalists representing a group of female musicians playing a piece of music, accompanied by a female vocalist singing on the harp player’s birthday.
Tuthmosis IV was the son of Amenhotep II and Queen Ti-A. He was the eighth king of the Eighteenth Dynasty, and he ruled from 1401 to 1391 BC.
Amenhotep II had five sons competing for succession and support, until Thutmose IV claimed that he saw the god Ra in his sleep. The details of this dream are that the Sphinx spoke to Thutmose and told him that if he removed the sand accumulated on his statue and preserved it from obscuring it from the eyes, then he would give him the crown of Egypt. This vision was found recorded on a plaque found in the hands of the Sphinx, and this plaque is considered evidence that Thutmose was not the true heir to the throne of Egypt and that his brothers were his obstacles to assuming the throne, which made him fabricate the story of the vision as a kind of trickery to seize the throne without a legal right. He had already removed the sand from the Sphinx and built a wall around it, built of mud.
The player of the old long-armed oud, the riqqa or percussion player, the player of what resembles a mandolin or rebab, and the double flute player
The Egyptians loved music and excelled at it. They were the first to form musical bands that played in the presence of kings and nobles.
On the special holidays, it's dead, gentlemen
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