Musical History Prior To The Medieval Period 7 In the period of history prior to the Medieval period, little is known about the music of the ancient Romans due to the fact that so much of the ancient Roman culture was lost with the fall of the Roman Empire 8Roman music was monophonic consisting of single melodies and not harmonic There were music competitions such as the ones organized by emperor Nero Musicians from all around the empire would come to compete The pantomimus was an early form of ballet that combined dancing, music and the equivalent of an opera singer"Roman music" covers an astonishingly large era (over two millenia), from about 750 BCE through the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE and then the fall of the Eastern empire in 1453 CE Obviously, there are no audio recordings from this time so must of what we know comes from limited written descriptions of music (such as from Pliny the Younger) and artistic
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