The document discusses what is known about ancient Roman music compared to ancient Greek music. Less is known about Roman music as there are no surviving sources on musical theory from Rome and very little notation has been preserved. Some reasons for this are that early Christians suppressed pagan music once Christianity became the main religion of the Roman Empire.

2. • Less is known about Ancient Roman music than is
known about the music of ancient Greece. There is a
number of at least partially extant sources on the
music of the Greeks. For example, much is known
about the theories of Pythagoras and Aristoxenus
(some of it from Greek sources and some through the
writings of later Roman authors), and there exist about
40 deciphered examples of Greek musical notation.
Very little survives about the music of the Romans,
however. There are various reasons for this, one of
which is that early fathers of the Christian church were
aghast at the music of theatre, festivals, and pagan
religion and suppressed it once Christianity became
the official religion of the Roman empire.

3. • : An eerie, plaintive,
lovely song played on a
woodwind-- notes rising
and falling in heartbeat
cadence --drifts across
the ages: the Song of
Seikilos. In 1882,
explorers found this song
inscribed over two
thousand years ago in
ancient Greek notation on
a stone stele (a
tombstone) in Turkey.
How do we know what it
sounds like?

4. Ancient Roman Musical
İnstruments

5. MUSIC ALBUMS

6. SAMPLE MUSIC
• Robin Hood and Little John,
They both are gone to the fair, O!
And we will go to the merry green-wood,
To see what they do there, O!
And for to chase, O!
To chase the buck and doe.
[Chorus:]
With ha-lan-tow, rumble, O!
For we were up as soon as any day, O!
And for to fetch the summer home,
The summer and the may, O!
For summer is a-come, O!
And winter is a-gone, O!
• Where are those Spaniards
That make so great a boast, O?
They shall eat the grey goose feather,
And we will eat the roast, O!
In every land, O!
The land where'er we go.
With ha-lan-tow, &c
• As for Saint George, O!
Saint George he was a knight, O!
Of all the knights in Christendom,
Saint George is the right, O!
In every land, O!
The land where'er we go.
With ha-lan-tow, &c.