Travel of Giovanni Battista Brocchi

Title
Travel of Giovanni Battista Brocchi
Description
Giovanni Battista Brocchi left Trieste on September 23-24, 1822, reaching Alexandria on November. After 28 days in Cairo, he visited Qena, Syria, Jerusalem, and returned to Cairo (1824). He stayed until March, 1825, then traveled to Beni Suef (1826).
Travel type
Exploration
Historical period
Late modern period
Departure Place
Trieste - Italy
Departure Year
1822
Arrival Place
Khartoum - Sudan
Arrival Year
1826
Observations on the travel
He visited Qena (February, 1823), Syria (August, 1823), Jerusalem (April, 1824), and returned to Cairo (May, 1824). He stayed until March, 1825, then traveled to Beni Suef (September, 1826). His diary ends a few days before his death.
The dots on the map indicate the places where sound and music events were described. They don't represent travel stages.
Sources
5
Events description
118
1. Subterranean noises and rumblings in the Island of Meleda
2. Lyrical ditties in Ragusa
3. The "colende" sung in Ragusa
4. The shrill sound of the horn of one of the Turkish Dervis
5. The minarets: where there are those who cackle a prayer
6. Some musical instruments in Alexandria
7. Prayer hours shouted from minarets
8. Dogs barking in Alexandria
9. Chants of Arabs in boats and while working
10. One man's dance to the sound of a fife
11. Choir section in the churches of St. Macario and St. Sergio
12. The pendulum clock with bells
13. Mass sung by Franciscans
14. Women's screams over a theft
15. The screams of women
16. Crashes at the clash with a rowboat
17. Jackals howls
18. The sound of village walls
19. Cackling for sugar
20. Turkish soldiers
21. The sound of thunder
22. Larksong
23. Music, dances and the instrument of the lyre
24. The sound of chalky granite
25. Departure to Qena
26. Pyrrhic dance and lyre playing
27. Voice of a Turkish man
28. The procession for St. Ibrahim Kenavi
29. Prosecution of the procession for St. Ibrahim
30. Bell at the monastery door
31. Nightingale singing in the monastery garden
32. Cicada sound
33. Carpet delivery procession
34. Carpet procession going to Mecca
35. Camel verse description
36. Arabs' love songs
37. Arabian dancers
38. Payment of a singer
39. Description of the way Copts speak
40. "Gadri" and "Mauleui" sing their prayers
41. Auctioneers in the quarters of Cairo
42. Nile cutting party preparation
43. Nile cutting celebration
44. During the Ramadan
45. An old man's account of the city of Cairo
46. The chattering of the children of El-Arich
47. The bells in Lebanon
48. Use of dances and players from Lebanon
49. Muezzin singing in Lebanon
50. Damascus fur delivery to Emir
51. The bells of Zahlé's churches
52. The bells of the stick
53. Rite of greeting according to etiquette
54. The verse of the Chameleon
55. At the Mar-Hanna convent, they sing in Arabic
56. Use of the word interdict for the monks of the convent
57. Very harmonious sacred hymns
58. Monk Serafino Susceni was engaged in casting bells
59. Howls of the jackal
60. Emir's entrance without musical accompaniment
61. Monk rings the bell if you open the door of the convent
62. Birdsong brightening the atmosphere
63. The dances of the Sacred Fire function
64. Zaġrūṭa of women also told by Herodotus, Homer, and Virgil
65. An Italian harpsichord master in Cairo
66. Dancers painted in the pyramid of Khafre
67. The honors usually given to the Bey
68. Quote from Diodorus' description of the ancient Egyptians
69. Nedi's boys' night school
70. Music at the palace from Mahu Bey
71. The bellowing of thunder
72. Another bellow of thunder
73. A big "tintimara" to figure out where they were
74. The croaking of the frogs in the village of Zaidab
75. The bellowing of hippos
76. The noise of the thunderstorm
77. The screams of a funeral
78. The quality of Arabic song lyrics
79. Dances with indecent movements
80. Oriental and Egyptian songs celebrate the night
81. Song, music and dance of Arabs and Turks in comparison
82. The noises emitted by two monkeys
83. Dog noises that attract crocodiles
84. The outbreak of a thunderstorm and lightning strikes
85. A worm compared to the fourth string of the violin
86. The speaking in whispers during hearings
87. The shouts of the auctioneers
88. The thunder in the distance
89. Screams of witches and warlocks turned into animals
90. Three verbs from the Ababdi Arabic dictionary
91. Badìa reads aloud a piece of the Koran
92. The cries of a child who has lost his mother
93. A particular language that is spoken in Dongola
94. Listen to understand the rules of pronunciation
95. Some terms from the Dongola language dictionary
96. The hyena verse said by "marafin"
97. Pilgrims on their way to Mecca sing to the sound of a drummer
98. The comparison between the hyena of Khartoum and the Sennaar
99. The role of the arts in religious ceremonies
100. Nubah movements of the Sennaar infantry
101. The role of music in the war
102. Poets, poetry and singers
103. Song, music and dance of Arabs and Turks in comparison
104. Birds sing in the woods
105. Dancing and singing at a wedding party
106. A drummer dies in the war
107. A surgeon's method of suturing thanks to the cries of a cat
108. The shackles of the miller crickets at night
109. Using sound to understand coin composition
110. The owl's cry as a bad omen
111. The rooster's cry in the forest of Queen Senninar
112. Music at night during Ramadan
113. The Sirocco fades the voice
114. The sound of the hawk's cry from the minarets
115. Small dictionary of the language of the dialect of Mahs
116. A bird quarrels with fellow birds over a place
117. The song of a shrill cicada
118. Why does the music of Africans sound like that?
Narrators
1
Participants
0
Places
39
Sounds
194
How to quote
Murarotto E., "Travel of Giovanni Battista Brocchi" (Travel), Echos. Sound Ecosystems in Travelogues. Published 2023 01 07.

doi: 10.25430/echos.travels.25

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