@@fuckitweballin759 but nowadays "thicness" equals being fat as opposed to what this epic refers to :"ample hips AND slender waist". Not ample everything
Memes aside, can we appreciate this man's beautiful voice and heartfelt presentation of this beautiful song. This magnificent piece of music would've been completely lost to me, were it not for him. Thank you for putting this out!
@@melliecolesg231 he's amazing. I like a chuckle but some things stop you in your tracks. I couldn't bring myself to make a joke after witnessing art that moves.
Hi Guys, what you have to realize is that I am not an egyptologist, or an archaeomusicologist. I am an entertainer. That's all. I make no claim to historical or linguistic authenticity on any level. I had a lot of fun building the Egyptian naviform harp and once it was finished I was curious to hear what might have sounded like accompanying a singer in ancient time, so I improvised and recorded a song for which I found a transliteration on the internet (digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk). There was no key to pronunciation, so I just did the best I could. Sorry.
I downloaded this video to put on my iPod because I love it so much. I have a playlist of Ancient Egyptian-themed songs, and this has a place of honour there. :)
Thank you for this piece Brother. Muzik is my true love and this is a touching piece. as you attempt to reawaken the sounds of the divine I truely hope people can see your strength in this humble act of ancient musical splender comin to life thru your Harp construction. The same spirit which guided you to authenticate the ancients sounds with your harp are also assisting you in the formation or reformulation of the Ancient Medu Neter - language of the gods, aka Neteru. Link me on my page i would like to compose a song with your harp and yourself. Nava Che
I'm sure that even in ancient Egypt when this song was sung there would have been many variations on how it was sung and played, it has already brought a lot of people who heard it on here plenty of joy so I don't see the problem personally...
I absolutely love this piece. I confess, I downloaded this beautiful video to put on my own iPod. If you had an album of Ancient Egyptian songs, I would buy it in a heartbeat. Well done, Peter!
Egyptologist here - this was beautiful and the lyrics were pretty spot on (as another commenter stated). I love hearing the ancient past be brought back to life and is as beautifully haunting as the ancient Egyptian trumpets played decades ago after being found in Tutankhamun's tomb. Well done!
He did get a word wrong. Senet does not translate to Sister. Senet/zn.t n.t ḥˁb, meaning the "game of passing". Senet is an ancient Egyptian Board Game. I'm quite a Senet player myself
Finally someone performing ancient music the way it was meant to be played, WITH FEELING. I have heard dozens of so-called "recreations" of ancient music and they are all stilted snoozefests played by academics with no groove. Hard to believe that this would be the same music that induced romances that rocked empires, wars and days long bacchanals. THIS rendition lives up to that ideal.
Yess bro,I can't believe I'm vibing to a song that's probably thousands of years old that's still beutiful to this day,it's amazing how Egyptian culture came to be
it's an honor to have people like you exist. To interpret such lost and old forms of art in modern means is no easy task. For bringing them to us, i thank you
I've understood the word "nefer', and from the Egyptian queen Nefertiti's name I know it means 'beautiful'. Thanks for today's ancient Egyptian listening practice lesson!
In a modern context it would be like a woman named Bella (since that means beautiful in French, slightly adjusted to make it a name instead of an adjective)
I am Egyptian, I liked very much that you sang beautiful songs from the Egyptian civilization, and I appreciate that very much, this makes me reflect on the beauty of The Egyptian civilization more, while while we read books or hear electronic lectures about them, there are others who embody them for us, as if we traveled through time, that your voice is really beautiful, and you have a wonderful talent in playing this musical instrument, greetings from Egypt🇪🇬🇪🇬
Though in ways, we're all related, it's impossible to get my head around having kin that far back in the family tree. American genealogy is youthful - at least the type limited to our shores. The rest comes back in DNA kits with percentiles... and endless mystery. Greetings to everyone in the past who created this music and who have waited for thousands of years to hear it once more. Paz y luz. 🌏🍃🔭✨🌙🦉💙✨
Why did you almost lose your language to Arabic bro? This is really sad. From your ancient Egyptian culture to Islam, which is younger than Christianity.
How many times have we asked ourselves "I wonder how ancient music sounded with a voice?" I think you have given us the closest interpretation and it is beautiful. You also created the instrument which is amazing! Thank you for sharing your gifts.
Maybe you are not an historician, but I am. And your pronunciaton is according to the academic stances, so it is very nice. Also you use "real" egyptian instruments, so u are really making experimental archaeology ;) Subscribed !
this may be a weird question but where can i learn the ancient Egyptian language ? i am really interested in their culture (since i am an Egyptian myself ) and i would really like to learn more about our civilization
Ummh is complicated..at first, try to ask or find if there's any egyptian courses But, exist in the web a lot of egyptian courses in pdf format. Try to find the book of Egyptian Grammar from Gardiner in pdf format. It is the basic guide to learn I know another pdf courses but you need to know at least a little of spanish
Alex Colinas Oh, Spanish is actually my first language. Would you be so kind as of to providing me with those PDF? I've been interested in dead languages for a long time, myself.
www.memraonline.com/ You can learn it here. It's an online course that you have to pay for (it's not too expensive, only $120 for a whole year), but you won't get any sort of university credit for it. Though if you take the studies seriously, you'll learn quite a lot. There's also more ancient languages that are offered there other than Egyptian, including Akkadian and Ugaritic.
I can picture this playing on a wonderful summer night in Egypt, the cool breeze perfectly relieving what would otherwise be unbearable heat, the scent of oleander coming in through the open window, laying next to the one you love, and a bowl of oranges on the nightstand...
This is the sexiest and most romantic sounding song. Even without reading the words to understand, the passion and feeling of the song translates into your soul.
@@emilioduarte7089 What can a simple letter (e), do to the meaning of an argument?! Christina meant and wrote ''sexiest'' as the superlative of 'sexy'. Maybe she meant erotic but i don't think she meant ''sexist''. 🖖
I think people in the ancient past had the exact same issues, thoughts and discussions as we do today. Just for their time. Think about it. Somewhere 4000 years ago two farmers argued about who has the best donkey with the most donkey power running around on their turfs.
I agree CrniWuk! Not everyone realizes humans will be humans. It makes our ancestors and lost civilizations seem a little closer when you realize they fought over dumb politics, argued over where to build, lived their lives like we do, just with different items and things.
@@ccdolfin I can imagine this to be true as well. They had no elections but the people definetly talked about rulers and the previous kings and what not.
Egypt has been my home for over 24 years, and I am still in awe of how much they left behind in recorded history. No, we can't get every detail 100% correct, but what you DID do was project the passion in this man's heart for this woman he adored. Your voice is beautiful, and I hope you do more with your talents. I'm a fan!!
There were pyramids 7000 years before the dynastic periods of Ramesses the II, let that sink in. When his archaeologist dug, they found museums, to artifacts found PRIOR to the 19th dynasty
It's hard to believe that people can't see beyond their own ego or assumptions, and just respect this man for putting so much effort into bringing a little reality of our ancient past to us in real form. It doesn't have to be perfect, or what you assume to be historically accurate. This was beautiful! I want to see all these experts put their own musical talents up against him. And...Go!
One more thing: this soun touches my heart. It was written 3500 years ago, and yet, it's striking to see humans today are essentially the same they were in the remote past. We still love in the same way, we hate and make war in the same way, and we make beautiful art in the same manner.
It's all part of the "human condition". We're the same now as then, no different. Greed, lust, envy, hate... But we still have a sense of humour and longing for something better. Petty, gossiping and troublemaking people still exist as evidenced by some of the comments. Sadly. I would say that a philosophical mindset is best...
Ahaha you fool, you played yourself. They used them as indentured servants; there’s a difference. Somebody skipped out on Egyptology when they went to Uni. Oh wait, I’m assuming from your assumption that you don’t have an anthropology degree and/or have never worked on archaeological digs. Maybe you’re dumb dumb doodoo brain couldn’t make it through haplogroups or maybe they kicked you out because you can’t understand context clues and see a joke from a mile away.
In this life, I once stood mesmerized in front of the Golden Mask of Tutankamen, scarcely breathing, unable to look away for a half an hour. This music made me feel as though I was remembering one of my past lives, feeling the heat on my skin and the sand under my feet, again mesmerized and scarcely breathing. I could see her. That djedjet makes the most beautiful sounds I've ever heard. The lyrics are timeless. I don't really believe in past lives, but that song made me question my beliefs. I have a craving for some beer, some bread and a handful of dates now.
@@themaggattack well, yea. To paraphrase Sam O'Nella, Egypt is a different place. And ancient times is a different place. That's different place squared you have to think about.
This is heartbreakingly beautiful, who cares if the Egyptians around when it was written might not recognize it. I wonder sometimes what the world would be like if people stopped being critical of everything long enough to FEEL! Lovely music, Mr. Pringle.. you have an exquisite talent.
It's because I watched a lecture about the Egyptians, followed by a video of David Byrne singing, "Once in a Lifetime". I guess that TH-cam thought this was right up my alley, then. It is!
I think one of the things I like most about this are the pauses mid-word that expressed being so entranced with someone you can barely find the words. The “Nefe-Neeeeee~”
Ӎ I dont really agree with Israel either. The people they claim to be descended from are long gone. They are no true 100% ethnic canaanites in the world, just vaguely related ones.
If the ancient egyptians were listening to anything even close to your interpretation, they were lucky indeed. Having lived in Cairo in the 80s, I have seen a few young girls to whom I would have liked to offer such a song. Thank you for your efforts to bring to life these breathtakingly beautiful compositions.
As someone who has been devoted to Ancient Egypt her whole life, your song brings great joy. Please consider releasing this and other songs in the same vein using your Djedet! Beautiful and astounding. Dua Netjer en etj, Neb. :)
It might depend whether we are talking about nobility or the more common folks. I mean, it was a rather wide-spread superstition in nearly any culture that had any form of nobility or royalty that incest would serve to concentrate the best qualities in a family (and of course, nobility is always related to the idea of being of a superior breed than common people). Granted, after a few generations they were always bound to find out that it just degenerates people in the long run but they simply didn't know how genetics worked back then. Among commoners it was common sense that you'd marry someone from another family to combine what goods, skills and businesses there were, but as the royal family you essentially already had everything worth having (or were at least bound to believe that) and you wouldn't want to share that with someone else without gaining anything or risk diluting the bloodline.
The use of sister as a lovely nickname was common in middle eastern culture, you can see the same use in the Song of Songs and i personaly believe that there was something greater than calling the loved one a sister out of her belonging to the same community as of the lover. I always understood it as one of many shortcuts that language makes in attempt to better express the bound the lovers feel for each other. When in love its hard to find a satosfatory and definitive way of expression for how close you consider that person to you. And for me the tender use of sister was a affectionate way to say: you are as intimmate of my heart as a sister, although by bloodship we are diferent love makes our souls known to each other as if they were sisters. I dont know how to better explain jt, but that was always what i percieved wen reading the Song of Songs.
You are very right! The word "sister" (or "brother" ) was indeed used to denote the sense of psychological closeness between lovers. This is not the only poem in Egyptian that uses such an expression, it was quite common.
I love how sad little people some of you have become. This amazingly talented musician takes the time to built an ancient instrument and learn a song in ancient Egyptian, record it with HD quality....and some of you can only post troll comments LOL. Why not try to do what he did or else shut up? Peter, I have watched a few of your videos so far, and I have loved them! THANK YOU! This is the closest we will ever have to time-traveling!
yeah man big ups mr pringle! i doubt they used a double harmonic major scale tho... this was BC Shit.... but the attempt of reconstruction must of been inspired. taking into consideration that egypt is near africa and more that likely a sub culture of africa i think the song would of sounded african influenced.... quiet possibly arabiac influence since cultures were developing there so probably something inbetween. i think would of been more up beat than what he composed. like the dude was about to stick it to his sister.... he must of been excited about that. also taking into consideration that egyptians lived in a pretty openly sexual culture i think it would of been more of a up beat kinda song.... because they people of the country were about to get a new queen and the city was about to receive a new power so rejoicing in their happiness would of been more likely. i could be totaly totally wrong i dunno i didn't live 3000 years ago. i just took into consideration how humans evolve culturally and the geographics of the culture... i can only assume. but the concept and the message will remain the same even if no one can recreate the song peferctly. Peter Pringle... what a name tho.... fuck i'm hungry.
@@Germgeuse It ain't mean literal sister. In many ancient cultures, "sister" was the poetic way of calling a woman that was dear to you. Marriage between siblings was NOT usually accepted, and the royals only did it because marrying a princess (even if it was your sister) was a way of reassuring the king's power. So yeah, it ain't talking about a blood'related woman, but about a generally-speaking beloved
Well I didn't find it weird, and no I'm not from Alabama. It seems to me even in modern days saying sister as a way to address a friend is a thing to some extent.
I took ancient egyptian language class in my first year of College, it’s a very complex language. But as I love Ancient Egypt very much I tried as best as I could. I’m not a pro, but your prononciation is not bad at all :) thank you for sharing your music
Although I was born and raised in Egypt,but sadly they don't teach the Egyptian language,when islam came to Egypt they made the language change from Egyptian(coptic language) to Arabic,and that's how our mother language lost,but a little good news,there is a small town in Egypt which is a christian village they teach the coptic language to children in school and speaks it fluently.
Мустафа - Everywhere we lost what we call now extinct languages, because of the new cilivizations. And somewhere the dialect too... less and less people know them. I don’t think they will ever make us learn it (the extinct language or dialect of where you are from); I hope though they give lessons at a certain point in your school curriculum, it’s important in my opinion. In France, where I’m from, we can take latin lessons at grade school if we want, it’s less hard than ancient egyptian in terms of lessons because latin was used until Renaissance and even further than that. Ancient egyptian is a bit more difficult and « new », because nobody knew how it really was until archelogy began to exist. Plus it’s not in cursive writing which is even more difficult, even when we write it in cursive it’s not that easy. Well... sorry I wrote a novel 😂 they say coptic language is close to ancient egyptian, as it’s related to late egyptian. I hope people in Egypt can learn ancient egyptian, or /and even coptic early at school as we in latin countries can have latin lessons. I don’t know how the education system is in Egypt 🙈
@@Cansulab Thanks for your sweet comment,and also the great information you said,I didn't know before you can learn latin in school.Just knew it now from you :),about school in Egypt, so, in elementary school we take the ancient egyptian alphabet only,no words or phrases to learn,and once you finished the school year,you forget what you took :(
Мустафа - You’re welcome 😊 aaah okay, too bad because yes you forgot what you’ve learned. It should be more deepened lessons 😖 hopefuly one day it will change for the better 🙏🏻
This is so romantic and so smoothing, it sounds so seductive. I love it so much. I wish the Ancient Egyptians were still alive so we can hear and see how they lived, their music, their religion, culture, etc. I’ve always been interested in culture and this made me really happy. Thank you for posting this ❤️💫
Egyptians still exist, they're not Arabs by blood. They're only called Arabs because they speak Arabic, but they're Egyptian by blood. Some even still speak Egyptian.
Imagine that a song of thousands of years ago said "her thighs extend her beauty" today we have "damn she thicc" The human instincts will never change.....
No apologies necessary. Complainers should direct their criticism towards Katy Perry's recent video and other Orientalistic abuses of the past. Pringle's musical interpretation is an earnest and entertaining engagement with ancient Egypt.
This reminds me of an old courting tradition in my country, when we try to date their girl we must sing a song dedicated to their daughter. Kinda dying tradition sadly.
A friend of mine sent me this video. I can tell you I got chills from the moment you began to sing and play. I have been a middle eastern dancer for many years. Yes, you do sound authentic ! Many blessings !
the expressiveness in this is so much more Than just the words but also the passion the writer was feeling.. and for being thousands of years old is just incredible.
Breathtaking. Many years ago I had a strange moment in which I stood with a loved one looking down at a village in a sandy desert landscape. He wore a white pleated loincloth and I was dimly aware he was a soldier. The yearning for that moment has haunted me for twenty years. And now I feel that same emotion. Whether the words are correct or phonetically accurate is unimportant. The music and emotion return me to my desert home two thouand years ago and I yearn for it with every beautiful note.
I had the same thing happen to me but with two different (repetitive) situations. I am positive I used to live in my past life somewhere near mountains full of forests around them since whenever I see a landscape such as that I feel a strange feeling like I've seen them a million times, like I used to be there. My other moments are when I am looking at some ancent greek places, especially columns. Walking around the archeological site Philippi gave me the weirdest kind of nostalgia. All gave me the feeling of rightness, like i'm supposed to be there. I am almost positive these moments are glimpses of our past lives.
They're not recalling a past life. They said this happened 20 years ago they just feel that the song takes them back to a vauge ancestral homeland 2000 yeard ago.
The greatest compliment I can find when it comes to music, is to point out that it has soul. This has it in spades...due to the amazing singer, and the beautiful poetry... and the haunting instrument. If only contemporary music had a fraction of this profundity of feeling! Pace Katy Perry!
This glistens with dark brilliance. Your voice is beautiful. I can't explain how this makes me feel. It's as though I've been waiting to hear such beauty for forever. Such fire. Shukraan jazilaan.
The lyrics make me think of the erotic Song of Solomon. The music is just so mysterious and lovely, and also his voice so strong and expressive. I love it! The reference to "sister, sister" is also used in the Song of Solomon and from my studies in bible school I learned that it was often a way to express the closest kinship imaginable with a woman--to call her also your sister-- like family.
Really? I thought it was a love song by a Pharoah to his wife, who is most likely his sister since royal families in Egypt marry each other to keep the blood 'pure'.
Dear sir, would you be so kind enough as to provide the text of the Egyptian words sung in this piece, if one were aspiring to learning the song? It would be greatly appreciated.
The transliteration of the text can be found at www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/literature/lovesongs.html Scroll down, and the song is the FIRST STANZA on the page.
The world needs more of this. Please return to us with more of these glorious jewel-like sounds. Your vocal threads of gold light the uncaring darkness of greed & torpor that are strangling our earth. Khepri 🌞
Your choice of scale on your harp may be arbitrary, and unrelated to modern scales and modes, but your performance is convincing. You brought that young lady from ancient Egypt back to life for a short while, and now we're all in love with her.
Awesome. I didn't know that any ancient music from that part of the world still survives. I was always under the impression that historians could only conjecture as to what they had for music then. It just shows you learn something every day.
***** is this to say that he learned something about the nature of their music, and cams up with a reasonable approximation of what they had back then, or did he have more to go by? I'm asking because when I studied music in college in the early 90s the wisdom was that nothing survived. I'm just curious if that unserstanding has changed since then or if I just remember wrong.
Honestly, while i was watching the pharaohs golden parade yesterday, i kept thinking to myself that you should have performed ancient egyptian songs there instead of them You have captured the essence and its amazing
“Ample hips and slender waist”. Yeah. Some things never change.
Also the part about the thighs 😂
I'm fucking dead. #mummified
Thiccness....thiccness never changes
@@fuckitweballin759 but nowadays "thicness" equals being fat as opposed to what this epic refers to :"ample hips AND slender waist". Not ample everything
Queen Didon Wrong. Fat is fat, thicc is thicc, and never the twain shall meet.
Memes aside, can we appreciate this man's beautiful voice and heartfelt presentation of this beautiful song. This magnificent piece of music would've been completely lost to me, were it not for him. Thank you for putting this out!
Romantic, erotic, and naturally poetic. "They don't write 'em like that anymore..."
Anyone that memes after listening to this was not hear to listen in the first place. They saw the title and came here to get likes. It's a shame.
@@juliangrant9718 I actually like Peter Pringle as a musician. These memes are all horrible and repetitive.
@@melliecolesg231 he's amazing. I like a chuckle but some things stop you in your tracks. I couldn't bring myself to make a joke after witnessing art that moves.
He sings the oldest recorded song int the world and the epic of Gilgamesh
When he said "𓃫𓂺𓏕 𓏖 𓏗𓌄 𓌅 𓌆" I felt that
😂
❤️😂
what's the meaning of this?
lol
@@hasanbasri5692 It probably has no actual meaning; the comment was just a joke
Hi Guys, what you have to realize is that I am not an egyptologist, or an archaeomusicologist. I am an entertainer. That's all. I make no claim to historical or linguistic authenticity on any level. I had a lot of fun building the Egyptian naviform harp and once it was finished I was curious to hear what might have sounded like accompanying a singer in ancient time, so I improvised and recorded a song for which I found a transliteration on the internet (digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk). There was no key to pronunciation, so I just did the best I could. Sorry.
I downloaded this video to put on my iPod because I love it so much. I have a playlist of Ancient Egyptian-themed songs, and this has a place of honour there. :)
Thank you for this piece Brother. Muzik is my true love and this is a touching piece. as you attempt to reawaken the sounds of the divine I truely hope people can see your strength in this humble act of ancient musical splender comin to life thru your Harp construction. The same spirit which guided you to authenticate the ancients sounds with your harp are also assisting you in the formation or reformulation of the Ancient Medu Neter - language of the gods, aka Neteru. Link me on my page i would like to compose a song with your harp and yourself. Nava Che
I'm sure that even in ancient Egypt when this song was sung there would have been many variations on how it was sung and played, it has already brought a lot of people who heard it on here plenty of joy so I don't see the problem personally...
I absolutely love this piece. I confess, I downloaded this beautiful video to put on my own iPod. If you had an album of Ancient Egyptian songs, I would buy it in a heartbeat. Well done, Peter!
Really I have as an Egyptian composer to say thank you very much for what you done in fact you put my feelings on fire .
Egyptologist here - this was beautiful and the lyrics were pretty spot on (as another commenter stated). I love hearing the ancient past be brought back to life and is as beautifully haunting as the ancient Egyptian trumpets played decades ago after being found in Tutankhamun's tomb. Well done!
Since you are an actual expert....could you please tell me how he knows the notes to the song?
@@arnavbhagwat4232 Probably written records
Arnav Bhagwat as he stated under the video, there are no records / notes written down so I assume he composed it himself
He did get a word wrong. Senet does not translate to Sister. Senet/zn.t n.t ḥˁb, meaning the "game of passing". Senet is an ancient Egyptian Board Game. I'm quite a Senet player myself
@@arnavbhagwat4232 read the description
imagine being so loved that a song about your thighs sung after thousands and thousands of years
imagine being so special people in the future dig your shit up, decode it, and learn how to play it, then post it to the Internet
And his sister.
I see the Egyptians are people of culture. They like thicc thighs as much as we do!
Ahhh to hold this kind of love in one's heArt the withstands eternity ahhh💙💙💙
Some damn good thighs.
Finally someone performing ancient music the way it was meant to be played, WITH FEELING. I have heard dozens of so-called "recreations" of ancient music and they are all stilted snoozefests played by academics with no groove. Hard to believe that this would be the same music that induced romances that rocked empires, wars and days long bacchanals. THIS rendition lives up to that ideal.
Yess bro,I can't believe I'm vibing to a song that's probably thousands of years old that's still beutiful to this day,it's amazing how Egyptian culture came to be
Totally, I could easily imagine myself getting slightly stoned with my babe in my arms on the cushions getting down to this..
He's Welsh isn't he? They got a quadruple dose of human emotion in song in their genes. Seriously beautiful and completely agree.
@@justinmorgan2126 Nah in reality you would be over-hearing it while hauling boulders for the tomb
Or not...
So beautiful. I envy the woman who inspired the composer, a love which trascends the time.
the real music, that it have a feels, dont money
This is exactly how I felt listening to this beautiful rendition.
Love transcends the time and moons.
Its beautiful.
It was his sister, the dude married his sister because that's what they did back then, and he even says it in the song
I am egyptian and just now I realized how much of the language and pronunciation still exists in our modern dialect
@Dan Seddon huh💀
Yeah it sound like classical Arab songs in Egypt from the 50s
Afro asiasitic languages go burr
@@smokecampjuju132 yeah afro Asian language cause we north African not just afro language like y sub-Saharan
it's an honor to have people like you exist. To interpret such lost and old forms of art in modern means is no easy task. For bringing them to us, i thank you
Your honored by the fact that people who sing about insest exist?
@@1lobster That's not what he meant dumbass. Learn some comprehension. It's good for you.
#1 lobster you’re an absolute fool
#1 lobster L
@@1lobster read the description
I've understood the word "nefer', and from the Egyptian queen Nefertiti's name I know it means 'beautiful'. Thanks for today's ancient Egyptian listening practice lesson!
Then Nefertiti = beautiful titi
And whatever 'titi' must mean 😏.
Okay, so nefer means beautful. What does titi mean?
Nefertiti means "A Beautiful Woman Has Come'
In a modern context it would be like a woman named Bella (since that means beautiful in French, slightly adjusted to make it a name instead of an adjective)
Same thing happened to me 😂😂😂😂
I am Egyptian, I liked very much that you sang beautiful songs from the Egyptian civilization, and I appreciate that very much, this makes me reflect on the beauty of The Egyptian civilization more, while while we read books or hear electronic lectures about them, there are others who embody them for us, as if we traveled through time, that your voice is really beautiful, and you have a wonderful talent in playing this musical instrument, greetings from Egypt🇪🇬🇪🇬
Though in ways, we're all related, it's impossible to get my head around having kin that far back in the family tree.
American genealogy is youthful - at least the type limited to our shores. The rest comes back in DNA kits with percentiles... and endless mystery.
Greetings to everyone in the past who created this music and who have waited for thousands of years to hear it once more.
Paz y luz.
🌏🍃🔭✨🌙🦉💙✨
Sending good vibes
Your islam and you destroy the Egyptian culture so sad but indian culture is dharm are still surviving
Why did you almost lose your language to Arabic bro? This is really sad. From your ancient Egyptian culture to Islam, which is younger than Christianity.
@@leonidasnm161kinda a true
How many times have we asked ourselves "I wonder how ancient music sounded with a voice?" I think you have given us the closest interpretation and it is beautiful. You also created the instrument which is amazing! Thank you for sharing your gifts.
The melody is not from ancient egypt though...
Maybe you are not an historician, but I am. And your pronunciaton is according to the academic stances, so it is very nice. Also you use "real" egyptian instruments, so u are really making experimental archaeology ;) Subscribed !
this may be a weird question but where can i learn the ancient Egyptian language ? i am really interested in their culture (since i am an Egyptian myself ) and i would really like to learn more about our civilization
Ummh is complicated..at first, try to ask or find if there's any egyptian courses
But, exist in the web a lot of egyptian courses in pdf format. Try to find the book of Egyptian Grammar from Gardiner in pdf format. It is the basic guide to learn
I know another pdf courses but you need to know at least a little of spanish
Alex Colinas Oh, Spanish is actually my first language.
Would you be so kind as of to providing me with those PDF?
I've been interested in dead languages for a long time, myself.
thank you
www.memraonline.com/
You can learn it here. It's an online course that you have to pay for (it's not too expensive, only $120 for a whole year), but you won't get any sort of university credit for it. Though if you take the studies seriously, you'll learn quite a lot.
There's also more ancient languages that are offered there other than Egyptian, including Akkadian and Ugaritic.
kids nowadays: retro is so cool, I just love the 80's
this guy: hold my beer
Peter Pringle: "The 80's huh? Is that BC or AD?"
I can picture this playing on a wonderful summer night in Egypt, the cool breeze perfectly relieving what would otherwise be unbearable heat, the scent of oleander coming in through the open window, laying next to the one you love, and a bowl of oranges on the nightstand...
Ooooo nice! Makes me wish I was there!
woah that description is so lovely
Perfect description,back when Egypt was something else
this and a blunt
Oranges were mentioned by Chinese only in IV century BC so that is unlikely ;v
This is the sexiest and most romantic sounding song. Even without reading the words to understand, the passion and feeling of the song translates into your soul.
Sexist? Tha was sad...
@@emilioduarte7089 What can a simple letter (e), do to the meaning of an argument?! Christina meant and wrote ''sexiest'' as the superlative of 'sexy'. Maybe she meant erotic but i don't think she meant ''sexist''. 🖖
@@emilioduarte7089 Yeah because Sexist fits in the context... my god man xd what a shit joke
Yep😃💜
I feel that✌
I think people in the ancient past had the exact same issues, thoughts and discussions as we do today. Just for their time. Think about it. Somewhere 4000 years ago two farmers argued about who has the best donkey with the most donkey power running around on their turfs.
wow youre so enlightened
I agree CrniWuk! Not everyone realizes humans will be humans. It makes our ancestors and lost civilizations seem a little closer when you realize they fought over dumb politics, argued over where to build, lived their lives like we do, just with different items and things.
"My donkey is of royal breed, 600 horse strength in these thighs!"
@@ccdolfin I can imagine this to be true as well. They had no elections but the people definetly talked about rulers and the previous kings and what not.
I like to think how no matter how many thousands of years pass, men may still argue ass or titties
Egypt has been my home for over 24 years, and I am still in awe of how much they left behind in recorded history. No, we can't get every detail 100% correct, but what you DID do was project the passion in this man's heart for this woman he adored. Your voice is beautiful, and I hope you do more with your talents. I'm a fan!!
Egyptians should be proud of their past. One of the most sophisticated civilizations in human history.
There were pyramids 7000 years before the dynastic periods of Ramesses the II, let that sink in. When his archaeologist dug, they found museums, to artifacts found PRIOR to the 19th dynasty
funny enough I don't think a lot of modern days Egyptians know about it...
lynch racemixing? There is only one race, the human race. Read a book.
@@phantomgoy if u think this way than u know nothing about egypt and its locals now
i think you're promoting to some afrocentrics bullshit
It's hard to believe that people can't see beyond their own ego or assumptions, and just respect this man for putting so much effort into bringing a little reality of our ancient past to us in real form. It doesn't have to be perfect, or what you assume to be historically accurate. This was beautiful! I want to see all these experts put their own musical talents up against him. And...Go!
من أروع ما سمعت في حياتي.
تحياتي لك من مصر.
One of the best things I've ever heard in my life.
Greetings to you from Egypt.
Very unusual, and rather haunting. Great voice!
dashinvaine :D Small world! I follow your deviant art.
A very small world, indeed.
OH MY GOD ... WHAT A VOICE ... WHAT A CHOICE .. THIS IS INCREDIBLE
Ancient Egyptians were lovable pagans. ☺️
👏👏👏👏👏👏
“Ample Hips Don’t Lie” (2009 B.C.E.) - Shakira ft Imhotep
AHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHHH😭😭
"Sister Got Back" - Pharoh Mix a Lot
From Egypt, Salute to you Sir.
mo salah running down the wing
@@comradeskeever1336 Salah...
One more thing: this soun touches my heart. It was written 3500 years ago, and yet, it's striking to see humans today are essentially the same they were in the remote past. We still love in the same way, we hate and make war in the same way, and we make beautiful art in the same manner.
That's applied history with inclusions of contemporary history
Kaylasa JaguarStar ... we are exactly the same. we only have more tools and different languages.
It's all part of the "human condition". We're the same now as then, no different. Greed, lust, envy, hate... But we still have a sense of humour and longing for something better. Petty, gossiping and troublemaking people still exist as evidenced by some of the comments. Sadly. I would say that a philosophical mindset is best...
Indeed...So hauntingly beautiful :)...I am a fan and WILL share - Blessings, Ivette
If you’re stepping to me without a harp and a ballad you’re not going to be getting the “Ample hips and Slender waist”
hahaah
Well said Zuri, you made my day, Waub Senate :)
Egpytians only used SubSaharans as slaves and livestock so it doesn't matter.
Ahaha you fool, you played yourself. They used them as indentured servants; there’s a difference. Somebody skipped out on Egyptology when they went to Uni. Oh wait, I’m assuming from your assumption that you don’t have an anthropology degree and/or have never worked on archaeological digs. Maybe you’re dumb dumb doodoo brain couldn’t make it through haplogroups or maybe they kicked you out because you can’t understand context clues and see a joke from a mile away.
@@KandiKlover The cringe in your comment was so strong, that I''ll sue you and you will hear from my lawyer for personal injury compensation.
I used to sing this to my girlfriend 4200 years ago untill she was sacrificed to Isis, miss you achnamuni 😣😪😓😓
isis is still same tho 🤷🏻♂️😂
@@kerem5191 - Isis was an ancient Egypt and god. So was Osiris and many others...
Hmm I hear a little more Hathor than Isis in the interpretation 🤣🤣🤣
Joseph Dockemeyer oh yeah thanks professor but sadly i already knew that😂
Allahu akbar 😩
hi from Egypt🐫🐪🐎
الافضل عالميا أهلا يا قصير القامة
Be proud of your amazing country.
Hello to great Egypt from Lebanon Ancient Phoenicia
هلا بمصر العظيمة و شعب مصر الشقيق
In this life, I once stood mesmerized in front of the Golden Mask of Tutankamen, scarcely breathing, unable to look away for a half an hour. This music made me feel as though I was remembering one of my past lives, feeling the heat on my skin and the sand under my feet, again mesmerized and scarcely breathing. I could see her. That djedjet makes the most beautiful sounds I've ever heard. The lyrics are timeless.
I don't really believe in past lives, but that song made me question my beliefs. I have a craving for some beer, some bread and a handful of dates now.
Haunting song... One can only imagine the beauty that inspired these lyrics thousands of years ago.
If they were royal, she WOULD be his actual sister.
Only if they were the Ptolemys
Even if they weren't. Things were different back then.
@@themaggattack well, yea. To paraphrase Sam O'Nella, Egypt is a different place. And ancient times is a different place. That's different place squared you have to think about.
@Britannia hence why Tut died young, the gene pool he came from was so narrow. I could only remember the Ptolemy family at the moment.
Tut
"Her thighs extend her beauty"
Ah, the Egyptians were cultured
This is heartbreakingly beautiful, who cares if the Egyptians around when it was written might not recognize it. I wonder sometimes what the world would be like if people stopped being critical of everything long enough to FEEL! Lovely music, Mr. Pringle.. you have an exquisite talent.
I'm clueless as to how the TH-cam algorithm brought me here, but WOW!
Me too. I had to check myself thinking this was too old to wat h, since it was from 2012! But the song is several millennia old!!
Don’t question - darkness and falcons await in that place you search for answers...
It's because I watched a lecture about the Egyptians, followed by a video of David Byrne singing, "Once in a Lifetime". I guess that TH-cam thought this was right up my alley, then. It is!
I started with didgeridoo, then sumerian singing, now this... where am I going now?
_25 we have the same pfp daaaammmmm
I think one of the things I like most about this are the pauses mid-word that expressed being so entranced with someone you can barely find the words. The “Nefe-Neeeeee~”
Much love and respect from Egypt 🇪🇬
i wish all the radio stations would just play this 100% of the time.... everyone would listen
everyone? really...?
People would be calmer
His voice is so beautiful and mesmerizing I almost cried.
2000 BC: "She has made the necks of all men turn around at the mere sight of her."
2010 AD: "Pink wig thick ass give 'em whip lash"
2020 A.D: "I beat that ass up, I'm gettin that P*ssy(wooh)🤣🤣🎵🎶🎶
*Lyrics of higher by Lil Keed*
RIP Poethic.
😆
ca. AD 1962: "And when she passes, each one she passes goes 'a-a-a-h'"
@Justin Goetz Really good point. Probably a lot of trash written in the ancient times, if we're to be fair.
Peter Pringle, is there any instrument you can not play with passion? Without a master skill? Striking, alluring, stirring. Bravo! 🎶🎶
give this man a functional Time machine and he will end up being everybody's gran-gran- gran-gran-gran-gran-gran-grandad
As an Egyptian, I wany to cry now.
We can never live up to such culture and beauty.
I really wish ancient egyptian was still a legitimate language
Alex Painter Me too!! I also want to learn to speak it as well.
The Coptic language is still used as a liturgical language among Coptic Christians in Egypt, it's the most recent form of the Egyptian language.
Me too, but the ethnic Egyptians were all wiped out by Greek and Arab conquerors.
Ӎ I dont really agree with Israel either. The people they claim to be descended from are long gone. They are no true 100% ethnic canaanites in the world, just vaguely related ones.
why?
If the ancient egyptians were listening to anything even close to your interpretation, they were lucky indeed. Having lived in Cairo in the 80s, I have seen a few young girls to whom I would have liked to offer such a song. Thank you for your efforts to bring to life these breathtakingly beautiful compositions.
but old true egyptians were completely replaced by arabs
@@TheKitMurkit modern Egyptians are a mix of ca two thirds native Egyptians, Arabs, Africans and a little bit of Europeans
@@TheKitMurkitugh 🙄
@@user-uf2df6zf5w guess you're right
I close my eyes and I can hear this echo from the great halls of the pharaohs.
+Sherio
I remember boogieing to this as we were switching from cuneiform to hieroglyphics, not long after I pushed the unicorns off the ark ;-)
draco malfoy fucking Malfoy SMH...
“her thighs extend her beauty”
@@taihao.multimedia lol
@@couterei.1953 My man's so horny he's thinkin about ancient Egyptian baddies, huge respect brother
@@couterei.1953 not that I condone writing one handed but amen brother.
Girls may be thin, thick, tall, short, busty or the embodiment of justice (flat, 'kay?), but the universal rule is that thighs save lives.
@cowgirl boots Hello my cowgirl ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Who's listening to this on 2020? Pretty amazing work transporting us to the past millennia ago!
As someone who has been devoted to Ancient Egypt her whole life, your song brings great joy. Please consider releasing this and other songs in the same vein using your Djedet! Beautiful and astounding. Dua Netjer en etj, Neb. :)
Ancient Egyptian love-song.
First lyrics: "Sister sister."
Checks out.
ShadowPa1adin yeah, incest was actually pretty taboo amongst the Ancient Egyptians
@@princepis
Not really, it was pretty common in royal families actually. Just check out Akhenaten's family, it's a mess.
It might depend whether we are talking about nobility or the more common folks. I mean, it was a rather wide-spread superstition in nearly any culture that had any form of nobility or royalty that incest would serve to concentrate the best qualities in a family (and of course, nobility is always related to the idea of being of a superior breed than common people). Granted, after a few generations they were always bound to find out that it just degenerates people in the long run but they simply didn't know how genetics worked back then.
Among commoners it was common sense that you'd marry someone from another family to combine what goods, skills and businesses there were, but as the royal family you essentially already had everything worth having (or were at least bound to believe that) and you wouldn't want to share that with someone else without gaining anything or risk diluting the bloodline.
Many religious communities use word sister for a woman of the same faith.
@@princepis
Tutankhamun wants to have a word with you.
The use of sister as a lovely nickname was common in middle eastern culture, you can see the same use in the Song of Songs and i personaly believe that there was something greater than calling the loved one a sister out of her belonging to the same community as of the lover. I always understood it as one of many shortcuts that language makes in attempt to better express the bound the lovers feel for each other. When in love its hard to find a satosfatory and definitive way of expression for how close you consider that person to you. And for me the tender use of sister was a affectionate way to say: you are as intimmate of my heart as a sister, although by bloodship we are diferent love makes our souls known to each other as if they were sisters. I dont know how to better explain jt, but that was always what i percieved wen reading the Song of Songs.
You are very right! The word "sister" (or "brother" ) was indeed used to denote the sense of psychological closeness between lovers. This is not the only poem in Egyptian that uses such an expression, it was quite common.
I love how sad little people some of you have become. This amazingly talented musician takes the time to built an ancient instrument and learn a song in ancient Egyptian, record it with HD quality....and some of you can only post troll comments LOL. Why not try to do what he did or else shut up? Peter, I have watched a few of your videos so far, and I have loved them! THANK YOU! This is the closest we will ever have to time-traveling!
Well the purpose of troll comments is to get reaction and you just gave it to them
+Troll God I love your profile picture troll god
yeah man big ups mr pringle! i doubt they used a double harmonic major scale tho... this was BC Shit.... but the attempt of reconstruction must of been inspired. taking into consideration that egypt is near africa and more that likely a sub culture of africa i think the song would of sounded african influenced.... quiet possibly arabiac influence since cultures were developing there so probably something inbetween. i think would of been more up beat than what he composed. like the dude was about to stick it to his sister.... he must of been excited about that. also taking into consideration that egyptians lived in a pretty openly sexual culture i think it would of been more of a up beat kinda song.... because they people of the country were about to get a new queen and the city was about to receive a new power so rejoicing in their happiness would of been more likely. i could be totaly totally wrong i dunno i didn't live 3000 years ago. i just took into consideration how humans evolve culturally and the geographics of the culture... i can only assume. but the concept and the message will remain the same even if no one can recreate the song peferctly. Peter Pringle... what a name tho.... fuck i'm hungry.
Kaylasa JaguarStar is Iraqis not Egypt
Sad little virgin boy sighted.
I almost feel the dust from the dunes on my face. I love the ancient egypt.
"Sister! Sister without rival!"
The original sweet home alabama
@@undrscoremusic It's still funny and doesn't carry well; unsurprising given the 4000 year gap
Pretty sure Egyptian Pharaohs married their siblings to keep the bloodline "pure".
@@Germgeuse It ain't mean literal sister. In many ancient cultures, "sister" was the poetic way of calling a woman that was dear to you. Marriage between siblings was NOT usually accepted, and the royals only did it because marrying a princess (even if it was your sister) was a way of reassuring the king's power. So yeah, it ain't talking about a blood'related woman, but about a generally-speaking beloved
я знал, что найду такой коммент здесь, я знал XD
Well I didn't find it weird, and no I'm not from Alabama. It seems to me even in modern days saying sister as a way to address a friend is a thing to some extent.
I took ancient egyptian language class in my first year of College, it’s a very complex language. But as I love Ancient Egypt very much I tried as best as I could. I’m not a pro, but your prononciation is not bad at all :) thank you for sharing your music
Although I was born and raised in Egypt,but sadly they don't teach the Egyptian language,when islam came to Egypt they made the language change from Egyptian(coptic language) to Arabic,and that's how our mother language lost,but a little good news,there is a small town in Egypt which is a christian village they teach the coptic language to children in school and speaks it fluently.
Мустафа - Everywhere we lost what we call now extinct languages, because of the new cilivizations. And somewhere the dialect too... less and less people know them. I don’t think they will ever make us learn it (the extinct language or dialect of where you are from); I hope though they give lessons at a certain point in your school curriculum, it’s important in my opinion. In France, where I’m from, we can take latin lessons at grade school if we want, it’s less hard than ancient egyptian in terms of lessons because latin was used until Renaissance and even further than that. Ancient egyptian is a bit more difficult and « new », because nobody knew how it really was until archelogy began to exist. Plus it’s not in cursive writing which is even more difficult, even when we write it in cursive it’s not that easy. Well... sorry I wrote a novel 😂 they say coptic language is close to ancient egyptian, as it’s related to late egyptian. I hope people in Egypt can learn ancient egyptian, or /and even coptic early at school as we in latin countries can have latin lessons. I don’t know how the education system is in Egypt 🙈
@@Cansulab Thanks for your sweet comment,and also the great information you said,I didn't know before you can learn latin in school.Just knew it now from you :),about school in Egypt, so, in elementary school we take the ancient egyptian alphabet only,no words or phrases to learn,and once you finished the school year,you forget what you took :(
Мустафа - You’re welcome 😊 aaah okay, too bad because yes you forgot what you’ve learned. It should be more deepened lessons 😖 hopefuly one day it will change for the better 🙏🏻
Did you study egyptian or Arabic?
I am mesmerized. How often do a hopeless romantic on the other side of the pond get to hear something like this? This is extremely beautiful. Like✨!
03:20 Today I learned me and an Egyptian composer share the same thing for Thighs, 3,000 years apart
thighs for life :)
~ Your most precious life was as an Egpytian musician and you have returned to gift us with the lost magic. Thank you ~
I never ,never heared such impressive music!! My heart is burning up! This ancient music is soo powerful!
It's astonishing how, despite the milennia, we can relate to the comparisons the writer did
This is the most beautiful song I’ve ever heard you are singing to me I know .
This is so romantic and so smoothing, it sounds so seductive. I love it so much. I wish the Ancient Egyptians were still alive so we can hear and see how they lived, their music, their religion, culture, etc. I’ve always been interested in culture and this made me really happy. Thank you for posting this ❤️💫
They wouldn't be ancient if they existed nowadays though
@@bithon5242 lol
Now they are arabs or jews 😉🦚
Egyptians still exist, they're not Arabs by blood. They're only called Arabs because they speak Arabic, but they're Egyptian by blood. Some even still speak Egyptian.
@@danielwoods3896 *Coptic.
Imagine that a song of thousands of years ago said "her thighs extend her beauty" today we have "damn she thicc" The human instincts will never change.....
the lyrics are not from 1000's of years ago. Read the description. eh
@@garyjosephchandler63 It says 1500 BC, which is about 3000 years ago
I mean, it could also be read that her legs “literally” extend her beauty in a anatomical and geographical way
Language has gone down hill though!!!😱
@@lauraarcher6996 Its the same, just word different in English because of translation.
This brought tears to my eyes. Thank you for making this song a reality.
The song was probably written for someone as beautiful as you....
Emmanuel Masih bruh
@@sillygoose4460 Yeah it's pretty bad.
@@emmanuelmasih2296 😐
@Szymon Nowak that is one creep move, dude
No apologies necessary. Complainers should direct their criticism towards Katy Perry's recent video and other Orientalistic abuses of the past. Pringle's musical interpretation is an earnest and entertaining engagement with ancient Egypt.
Commenting from 2021 here - what's going on back in 2014?
@@the_tax_consultantThis was probably around the time Dark Horse was released
I want to say how much I love this masterpiece without sound cringey or repetitive, just say, this is art.
Peter Pringle-- don't apologize for anything. That was beautiful! I look forward to whatever else you choose to do.
Remember when my bf Imothep first sang this to me outside my hut 3000BC...so embarrassing lol my parents were like, we tryna sleep here😂😂
He live during 27 century Bc well how may be Horkare
HAHAHAHAHAH
These are the comments i appreciate
This reminds me of an old courting tradition in my country, when we try to date their girl we must sing a song dedicated to their daughter. Kinda dying tradition sadly.
Peter - you put so much passion and spirit into every syllable. This is utterly breathtaking.
You are gorgeous and sing from the soul. Wow. My dad had beautiful curly hair like yours.
Sheev Palpatine, listening to this song:
Peter Pringle: ...SEEEEENATE! SEEEEEEEEENAAAAATE!
I laughed wayy to hard at this
bloody hell this is hillarious
lol
Now I can't unhear it lolol
He said senet
Not senate
This would be a beautiful song at an Egyptian Wedding. Pure class and love that stood the test of time.
A friend of mine sent me this video. I can tell you I got chills from the moment you began to sing and play. I have been a middle eastern dancer for many years. Yes, you do sound authentic ! Many blessings !
omg this song this sound is so new too me but it taps into my soul..thank you for this amazing song your playing...its soooo romantico ♡♡
“I love you, beetch! I ain’t never gonna stop lovin you, beetch!”
“Aw mah gawd😍”
THIS LOVE SONG IS SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL AND THE LANGUAGE IS PERFECTION,YOUR VOICE DOES IT JUSTICE AND SO ROMANTIC AND DEEP IN RESONANCE!!!
I am Egyptian and proud Greetings to my ancestors the Pharaohs ❤
the reason this dude knows so many songs is because he was there when they were first performed. its the only explanation for his voice
Absolutely mind blowing Peter you brilliant Thankyou
I think you where chosen to share this extraordinary gift.
Thank you. Your talent is astonishing!!!
This is why we have the internet! Thank you for the effort and the originality:))
the expressiveness in this is so much more Than just the words but also the passion the writer was feeling.. and for being thousands of years old is just incredible.
Breathtaking. Many years ago I had a strange moment in which I stood with a loved one looking down at a village in a sandy desert landscape. He wore a white pleated loincloth and I was dimly aware he was a soldier. The yearning for that moment has haunted me for twenty years. And now I feel that same emotion. Whether the words are correct or phonetically accurate is unimportant. The music and emotion return me to my desert home two thouand years ago and I yearn for it with every beautiful note.
You mean like you were remembering some sort of past life?
***** haha
nikkitytom I felt something strange too, I saw like orange sand...I thought I was crazy xd
I had the same thing happen to me but with two different (repetitive) situations. I am positive I used to live in my past life somewhere near mountains full of forests around them since whenever I see a landscape such as that I feel a strange feeling like I've seen them a million times, like I used to be there. My other moments are when I am looking at some ancent greek places, especially columns. Walking around the archeological site Philippi gave me the weirdest kind of nostalgia. All gave me the feeling of rightness, like i'm supposed to be there.
I am almost positive these moments are glimpses of our past lives.
They're not recalling a past life. They said this happened 20 years ago they just feel that the song takes them back to a vauge ancestral homeland 2000 yeard ago.
This is the oldest equivalent of a rap song talking about someone´s T H I C C N E S S
The greatest compliment I can find when it comes to music, is to point out that it has soul. This has it in spades...due to the amazing singer, and the beautiful poetry... and the haunting instrument. If only contemporary music had a fraction of this profundity of feeling! Pace Katy Perry!
Such clear, pristine voice! True passion in each note. Simply perfect. Any chance you could post the transliteration of the lyrics?
This glistens with dark brilliance.
Your voice is beautiful.
I can't explain how this makes me feel.
It's as though I've been waiting to hear such beauty for forever.
Such fire.
Shukraan jazilaan.
The lyrics make me think of the erotic Song of Solomon. The music is just so mysterious and lovely, and also his voice so strong and expressive. I love it! The reference to "sister, sister" is also used in the Song of Solomon and from my studies in bible school I learned that it was often a way to express the closest kinship imaginable with a woman--to call her also your sister-- like family.
Really? I thought it was a love song by a Pharoah to his wife, who is most likely his sister since royal families in Egypt marry each other to keep the blood 'pure'.
I agree to Megan , I had the same thoughts about the song of Solomon.
until now ,in the arabic world , the reference "sister" still exists
Looks like alabama was another ancient discovery then, it's up there with agriculture and toilets
Imagine this voice praising in the temple. King David must have had a strong voice like this.😂😂😂😂
Dear sir, would you be so kind enough as to provide the text of the Egyptian words sung in this piece, if one were aspiring to learning the song? It would be greatly appreciated.
The transliteration of the text can be found at www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/literature/lovesongs.html Scroll down, and the song is the FIRST STANZA on the page.
thank you very much!
thank you Peter Pringle ...
The world needs more of this.
Please return to us with more of these glorious jewel-like sounds.
Your vocal threads of gold light the uncaring darkness of greed & torpor that are strangling our earth.
Khepri 🌞
You do such a great job with your music Peter. Imagination, Heart and Soul! Thank you!!!!! :)
Ohhhh so transcending of time and space--certain music is like a spell-a wish- this is dreamy ♥️♥️♥️
Your choice of scale on your harp may be arbitrary, and unrelated to modern scales and modes, but your performance is convincing. You brought that young lady from ancient Egypt back to life for a short while, and now we're all in love with her.
Be sorry for nothing peter, this is great.
This is absolutely beautiful!
Awesome. I didn't know that any ancient music from that part of the world still survives. I was always under the impression that historians could only conjecture as to what they had for music then. It just shows you learn something every day.
***** is this to say that he learned something about the nature of their music, and cams up with a reasonable approximation of what they had back then, or did he have more to go by? I'm asking because when I studied music in college in the early 90s the wisdom was that nothing survived. I'm just curious if that unserstanding has changed since then or if I just remember wrong.
Yes it is 💞
You know you made a banger when it stil slaps 2000 years later
Inspiring work, truly evocative, emotional piece of art. Thank you for this.
The passion and love thousands of years old is heard today through your soul!! My god!
Honestly, while i was watching the pharaohs golden parade yesterday, i kept thinking to myself that you should have performed ancient egyptian songs there instead of them
You have captured the essence and its amazing
Hi from Spain! This work is absolutely wonderful.So talented! Thanks for share :)