#Ancient Roman Music

[haveyouheardthisband]

[riddlemefuckingthis]

“MUSIC AND LITERATURE ISN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE!!!”

Oh my god, stop being so fucking dramatic. Do we need to talk about Flavius’ Girl and The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade again?

[mariamilani]

Ancient Roman Music

The Ancient roman music was a part of Roman culture from the earliest of times. Ancient Roman musicians and instruments were an integral part of great public events like the 'munera' games and other social and religious occasions.

[thesilicontribesman]

Iron Age Deskford Carnyx Trumpet and Facsimile, The National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 55: Medievalish and Earlier

If you could travel through time, but only to see something for Research or for Fun, not to change anything, what would you pick? Yes, you may have a Babel Fish in your ear to translate.

These Questions are the result of suggestions a the previous iteration. This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had.

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

[enlitment]

You've heard about Cicero: The Roman Musical. Now get ready for Six-style musical about the wives of Mark Antony! (also featuring Curio)

Featuring but not limited to:

Antonia Minor's steamy duet with Dolabella

Fulvia's epic battle-cry rap number, including a verse based on Octavian's terrible poem

Octavia's heartfelt power ballad about desperately trying to keep the Octavian-Mark Antony alliance together while looking after all the children (while simultaneously refusing to allow other people to walk all over her)

Cleopatra singing about her political ambitions, comparing JC and Mark Antony, defending herself against her portrayal in Rome & in modern media

Also featuring a song/rap number based on Cicero's second philippic because it needs to be there!! Mark Antony climbing in through the roof, possibly in a stola, Curio and his dad is there ---

Some kind of ensemble song with the wives addressing the audience based on Shakespeare's Friends, Romans, countrymen speech

you see my vision, right?

Also yes, I'm aware there's six of them on the poster. One of them is Curio perhaps. Also, graphic design is my passion, can you tell?

[badgerswithbagels]

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[xplore-the-unknwn]

My roman empire is that people should make more big budgeted musicals about the ancient civilizations. We can have an Epic of Gilgamesh musical, the Trojan War, and any ancient story that was passed down through song for generations.

I wanna hear our ancestors come alive again and hear the beautiful words and stories that they’ve so passionately sang and written about-for us not to forget about them.

[chxrryade]

nero was just in his regina george era guys

[themythecho]

Listen to me ramble abt my special interests and how they work (Or don't idc)

For those who DON'T know (idk how, but we ball) I'm autistic. I have very profound interests in things. I have 6 main special interests and then like sub catigories dw I'll explain it:

SO: Ancient Rome/Greece, Writing, Art, Musicals, Animals, & Shows (Specifcally like TV14 shows) LET ME EXPLAIN:

So the first 4 have a lot of overlapping simularities, so here are the sub catigories to those:

The Riordanverse

The Song of Achilles

EPIC the musical

Hadestown

The Lightning Thief the Musical

Bloom of the Sun (How tf is a sub-special interest of mine my own writing? idfk)

THEN shows like:

Brooklyn 99

Sherlock Holmes

Sweet Tooth

Dead Boy Detectives

Young Royals

And all that are shows I have a deep interest in as well.

For ANIMALS, this one I have had since I can remember:

Since I was a kid I have LOVED animals, specifically aquatic ones and ones you can keep as pets

Like I have spent 5 hours straight as a kid researching *mollies*, yk, the basic pet fish

Same with snakes, otters, dolphins, all that

SO dear viewer, my special interests have sub catigories too them, I blame it on my ADHD needing different stuff all the f-king time but my Autism needing the same stuff. I literally have a google drawing for my sub catigories.

I also opened up this post to rant abt Greek Mythology??? Idk bro

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Ancient Greek and Roman music Masterpost

As our national epic, the Odyssey, did I'll start from the middle. Please listen to the sound of medieval Greek music and then come back. It's an exercise, I command you!

Middle Ages Greek music is speculated to be "slowed down ancient Greek music"! 😁 So, take notes on that!

Christodoulos Halaris - Anthology of Byzantine Secular Music

(Christodoulos Halaris was a prominent Greek composer, researcher, and musicologist. He focused on secular Byzantine and traditional music, incorporating his extensive research into a solid and singular musical language.)

After your warm-up (and perhaps some confusion) let's get into what you came here to see.

What Ancient Greek and Roman Music Sounded Like - A Beginner's Introduction

Α fantastic introduction by a composer, musician, and researcher who calls himself:

OKAY, OKAY, HE IS FARYA FARAJI, YOU GOT ME.

So, this is going to be another excellent video where he spits facts. He gives a great impression of how ancient Greek and Roman music sounded like.

And no, they didn't sound like the watered-down (north)-eurocentric "ancient Greek music" on youtube videos you find. (who's surprised at this point, after all this Northwestern appropriation) Unless they are made by Farya Faraji because… the man knows his shit (and our shit 😂)

By the way, I called it "watered down", not because I believe western music is lame, but because the performers apply western rules to ancient Greek music, stripping it of all the Heterophonic complexity.

In the video above, you'll learn how the lyre should actually be played!!! And what instruments have been in continuous use in Greece for more than 2.000 years! And see all the ways our ancient and traditional music is more complex than Western music - such as Western music can be more complex than ours in other ways! (as also stated in the video)

And before you ask: Why does ancient Greek and Byzantine/traditional Greek music sound Oriental? Well, that's just your ear and biases and Hollywood stereotypes, my dear friend. See, these sounds are not (just) Oriental! They are originally Greek, too!

Many tunes and the way of singing the West associates today with the Middle East came from the Greek world (where these tunes are still in use, mind you) or other Mediterranean countries. That's not to say that Middle Eastern nations didn't have these scales and twirls for a long time - because they did. That's their ancient music, too.

Please see the video below to make more sense of my ramblings:

The Greco-Roman Influence on Middle-Eastern Music

All of Farya's videos have their sources in the description so make sure to check them out!

Now you can better enjoy the Epitaph of Sekeilos you heard in the first Middle Ages video! You can also listen to another great version by Farya, where he uses the above ancient Greek principles he mentioned in his video. That's why his version actually feels fun to listen to, thank god! (Of course Chalaris also orchestrates the Epitaoh in an excellent way)

Personal commentary: I am happy to share Farya's work online because he put into words why reconstructions of ancient Greek music online don't sound Greek at all. Greeks have a hard time relating to it because... that's not our folk music. They sound boring like Chopin playing piano when he was 3 years old. (But by now you know why! 😉)

Of course, ancient and traditional Greek music are not identical and no one expects them to be. But given our history, our music history, and cultural evolution, we know the sounds of our music - as all people can identify the music of their land and area. I am glad my gut feeling was right and the music wasn't actually that simple. With the complexity of our ancient chants and the plethora of instruments we had in antiquity, there was no excuse for our ancient melodies to be that simple.

[fullofobsessions]

Et tu, Burrte?

[lpa6zn]

All of "The Iliad" is a compendium of men competing to see who has the biggest ego, it had to be said and I said it.

[mariamilani]

Ancient Roman Music

The Ancient Roman Music was a part of Roman culture from the earliest of times. Ancient Roman musicians and instruments were an integral part of great public events like the 'munera' games and other social and religious occasions.

[crowleyspriestess]

«Silva domus fuerat, cibus herba, cubilia frondes,/ iamque diu nulli cognitus alter erat./ Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas:/constiterant uno femina virque loco;/ quid faceret, ipso nullo didicere magistro:/ arte Venus nulla dulce peregit opus.»

Translation:

"His house (of the man, mankind) was the forest, grass was his food, leaves his bed, and for a long time every man was unknown to the other. It was the pleasure of Love - it's said- to placate the wild spirits. They stopped, the man and the woman, in the same place; they learned their way what they should do, without any teacher; back then there was no "art", but Venus did her sweet duty"

Ovidius- Ars Amatoria (II, 475-480)

[mikrokosmos]

Ottorino Respighi

(9 July 1879 – 18 April 1936)

Happy Birthday, Otto!