Influences from the west to the east merged into the pre-Christian music of the Greeks and later the Romans. Musical
practices and conventions perhaps conveyed by travelling musicians brought a wealth of diversity and invention.
Surviving Greek notation from this period of musical history has given scientists and musicologists alike a vital clue
to the way that the music of the time might have sounded. It certainly indicates remarkable links to the music that
would follow, perhaps most notably through the use of modality in Greek music.
In the frescoes and in some written accounts, including the Bible, we have learned about the instruments that featured
in the Roman and Greek times and their significance to the cultures. The trumpet as an instrument of announcement and
splendid ceremony, or the lyre as an integral player in the songs of poets.
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