Ancient Roman Music - Musica Romana II - Sheet music

by StephanieHaig

I visited the YouTube channel by Aemilius Paulus and I realy love some of the songs - I am helping with a large production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and we would like to have live performers playing this kind of music - specifically liked track 2 and 4 - is it possible to purchase the sheet music in order play this music in house? Please let me know what I need to do or who I should contact? Thank you very much! - Stephanie

erus

I would not bother trying to get sheet music for that (I assume they are not using notation that much, and what they could be using would not be very useful because of the amount of improvisation, access to instruments, and familiarity with that kind of music).

Try to contact:

We don't really know what Roman music sounded like. Those ensembles attempt to recreate something based on what we have: some surviving instruments, depictions of musicians, mentions of music in texts, theoretical texts that tell us about the intellectual framework used back then to deal with music... There are some surviving forms of music notation, but they don't offer that much detail.