What did Popular Music in Ancient Rome sound like?

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  1. Performer: "I AM A GOLDEN GOD!"

    Praetorian: "No. You're Imperator Nero Cladius Divi Claudius filius Caesar Augustus Germanicus…and we've had enough of your playing. We requested 'Libera Avis'."

  2. I always read that there no notated Roman music has ever been found. Those hymns and notation you mentioned by Mesomedes, were they able to be transcribed, and has anyone made a recording of them?

  3. i just realised, the romans fangirled over the musicians and lyricists as we do rock stars and boy bands, they fangirled over the gladiators as we do athletes. we are exactly the way we were 2000 years ago, i love that.

  4. You should do videos on music in ancient Persia, China, Mesoamerica, Egypt, India, and Mesopotamia at some point. Like you could gradually turn this into a series of videos on music in ancient times.

  5. Nero was an unabashed fan of Roman music. He used to take part in musical competitions,(which he won after bribing the judges).

    He valued the arts and had a full time director of elegance or Arbiter Elegantiae.

    He used to put on shows in his palace and usually performed for long periods,boring his audiences to sleep.

    When he was overthrown and ordered to commit suicide,he begged the Roman senate to allow him to retire so that he could travel around the empire performing for all to see and hear. His dying words,(allegedly) were : “What an artist the world is losing in me”.

  6. I don’t got a minute believe their music or be any bc anxiety music was minimalist, solemn and show. folk music of the region and Middle East are very rhythmic and fast and i believe peoples anywhere enjoyed boisterous stomping rhythms throughout the ages

  7. I find ancient history so fascinating. It feels like they were just like us, not even from a different time but a different planet. Like an alternate universe. They did all of the same things just without technology. Their society was so far ahead of its time. What life was like after the fall of Rome is how you’d think it would’ve always been until the renaissance. Although I guess it wouldn’t have been a “renaissance” in that case but you get my point. It’s just so interesting that their society is so similar in so many ways to modern societies. Idk I guess this is something that should be really obvious but I guess I’ve always taken it for granted.

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