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What did Popular Music in Ancient Rome sound like?

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Pieces together the sound of everyday Roman music from surviving instruments, fragments of notation and descriptions in ancient texts, a topic where the evidence is thin and handled carefully.

What we know about Roman music, its instruments and attempts to reconstruct it.

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Part of Daily Life in Ancient Rome, The Fall of Rome