Description: The Nile river gently flows in the left-hand figure as the essentially four-note right-hand motive-perhaps suggesting ancient pyramids and temples-is played four times (with slight variation in the last two.) A middle section introduces an eight-measure contrasting idea that is repeated with variation before there is a return to the opening idea.

Purpose: To create and sustain an atmosphere of suspended time.

Suggestions for Instruction: Try to sustain the atmosphere by using a smooth legato touch and tasteful use of the sustaining pedal. Feel that you are looking back at an ancient civilization through the mist of time.

Key: A minor

Publisher: Willis Music
Series: Willis
Piano Level: Late Elementary
Pages: 4
Credits: Magdy Halim Mikhail Later Elementary Level
Composer(s): Magdy Halim Mikhail