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This is part two of our look at music and it is an interview with a composer named Jeffrey Goodman.

Jeffrey is a composer primarily for the classical guitar,

but he has prepared one album and a number of other songs, evoking the world of ancient Egypt.

In order to get a better understanding of things like ancient instruments that have been

reconstructed in the modern era, I asked Jeffrey to join me for an interview in order to discuss

his approach to evoking that ancient world.

Along the way, we discuss things like the scales that the Egyptians might have used, the various instruments which

we have recovered, and what those indicate about their compositions.

Now the music of the past is gone, and since the ancient Egyptians have not left any surviving notation or rhythms,

we're unable to reconstruct the melodies that they did play.

But we're not totally in the dark because ancient

instruments have survived. These can be studied and copied and

and by looking at replicas of those instruments we can at least get a very basic understanding

of what the instruments were capable of and what sounds they made.

From this, we can do some attempts at reconstruction and Jeffrey Goodman has approached

this much more carefully than many others. So sit back and enjoy a short interview

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