In the Mystic Land of Egypt is a piece of light classical music for orchestra and optional voices composed by Albert Ketèlbey in 1931.
[3] A synopsis of scenes by the composer mentions that first native soldiers pass through a village, followed by a soft song from a boat on the Nile.
[1] The composer scored the work for a tenor or high baritone to perform the song, a male choir (or quartet) of soldiers, and a "colourful"[1] orchestra including saxophones, banjos, mandolins, and marimba.
[1] A motif of a descending chromatic scale is introduced in the beginning, repeated throughout the piece in both the melody as the harmony, in the end inverted.
[5][6] In 2008, it was included in a collection of Golden Age of Light Music: Globetrotting, with several works by English and American composers of "exotic, mostly tropical settings the listener becomes the beneficiary of a riot of imagination".