Coptic music is music that is played in the Coptic Orthodox Church (of Egypt). Instruments include cymbals (hand and large size). People also chant hymns in rhythm with the music. Coptic music is purely religious. Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music Wikicities has a wiki about Music: Music Music City : a collaborative music database All Music Guide... Coptic is an adjective referring to the original inhabitants of Egypt, the Copts. ... This article is about the percussion instruments made of metal disks, for the string instrument played with beaters see cymbalum. ... See also hymn - a program to decrypt iTunes music files. ...
The greatest modern Coptic cantor is the late Cantor Mikhail Girgis El Batanouny, whose recordings helped preserve and unify many ancient chants that otherwise would have been lost. A chant is the rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds, either on a single pitch or with a simple notes and often including a great deal of repetition or statis. ...
External links
Complete collection of Cantor Mikhail Girgis El Batanouny's recordings of Coptic chant from coptichymns.net
Coptic Music, Hymns, and Rites Articles from coptichymns.net
One of the foremost Copticmusical scholars, Dr. Ragheb Muftah, says, "Scientific research has proven that the music of the Coptic Church is the most ancient ecclesiastical music in existance, and constitutes the oldest school of music which the world now possesses.
"Copticmusic is a great music and may be called one of the seven wonders of the world, and indeed, if a Caruso filled with the Spirit of God were trying to sing some of the Coptic themes in the form of a great oratorio, it would be enough to rekindle Christendom (spiritually).
This music, which has been handed down from untold centuries within the Coptic Church, should be a bridge between East and West, and would place a new idiom at the disposal of the western musicians.
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