Video clip Information:‘Mat Khaf Sha Ley?’ ['Why Be Concerned Of Me?'] is a song from ‘Sultana Al Tarab’ ['The Sultana of the Song' or 'Queen of Delight'] a 1978 Egyptian Cinema film by Hassan Al Imam. It is the existence story of famous Egyptian singer Mounira Mahdiya. Mounira was born in 1885 and died in 1965. She was a singer of Ottoman design Arabic tunes in Cairo. In 1917 she became the very first Muslim actress to peform in cinema films as Jewish or Christian females acted in them prior to Ms. Mahdiya’s film debut at Juliet in ‘Romeo and Juliet’. ORCHESTRATION The songs of ‘Sultana Al Tarab’ might be some of the very best performances of singer Sharifa Fadal who sings and normally requires the function of Mounira Mahdiya in the motion picture. The tunes are a affordable PASTICHE [song in the style of] of the greatly Ottoman-motivated tunes of Egypt in the early 20th Century following hundreds of years of Turkish rule. The huge Ensemble [team of instruments/singers] is a mix of conventional PERCUSSION [instruments you hit], twelve + Western violins, standard more than-blown flutes [with a breathy sound] and stop-blown wood flutes, male and female chorus and singer Sharifa Fadal. The PERCUSSION are produced up of a selection of Center Eastern DARKBOUKAS [vase drums], body drums, TAMBOURINE [round body drum with modest metal discs that add increased Register (large, medium or low pitch)]. There is a use of Western orchestral CYMBALS [significant metal discs crashed collectively significantly]. The METRE [quantity of pulses for each measure] is four. The song begins with a …
Bes, god of music
Egyptian Antiquities Department