yes, they're making a racket, it really looks down on the abilities of the ancients I'm thinking the local centurion heard them carrying on like that he'd have them off to the circus
No, they don't need, tempered tuning wasn't invented until the late 1600s, back then they used to use Pythagorean tuning, which for today's standards sounds wrong. They are meant to sound like that, just like bagpipes and Arab music, for example, is meant to sound "untuned", they use a different tuning method. Instruments that are slightly "untuned" have a special, human and non-artificial like charm that I really dig into
Tempered tuning may not have been invented but most of these instruments work fundamentally the same way as they do now. Maybe some of them have a bit of excuse but the brass lads surely don’t.
Dear lord those lyres wouldn't have entered anyone! It's a beautiful instrument when played properly. Also the Roman horns can produce amazing sounds too, not the strangled cat heard here!
😂😂 Oh, wonderful involuntary humour! Thanks!!! 🤣 The unnerving annoying street "musician" was the best, but I've enjoyed very much that Monty Python flair of the whole video.
@Michelle Fong They gave certain tones and rythms as codes. They had to be definite, strong and coordinated. This video is parodic and misinforming. How can people even believe that this is what it sounded like? Do they think the Romans just crawled out of a primeval soup and this is all their flabby fish mouths and brains were capable of? Is this how a massive, highly efficient army, ruling the world, was directed? No, documents tell otherwise. By Jove, all you need is reason, to know and understand.
Thank you so much for showing us what instruments were used in ancient Rome, and how they sound. I'm writing now music in ancient Rome style, and it can really help me knowing more about this epoch.
For those of you saying that it’s just a historical demonstration and it doesn’t matter if they play it well, you won’t be so sure about that when a civil war reenactor pours black pepper down his rifle instead of black powder.
lyres were not tuned to the major scale, they were tuned in a tetrachordal system that had smaller intervals we in modern times don't recognize,like certain half sharp intervals within their scales.In this regard this is incredibly inaccurate, not to mention how I would certainly question if these people at this exhibit are really even musicians -_-
This is completly inaccurate lookup "Allous by Callum Armstrong". You are so wrong. They were very skilled. Historians look through a keyhole and interpret. Callum, on the other hand, shatters this notation entirely. If you are not moved by his ancient greek allows playing then you are not human.
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Tuning is much more complicated than the layman believes as scales are more multiple than most people are aware of and methods of tuning have changed over time. Present day piano tuning is always a little out of tune in order to facilitate playing in all keys.
The best part is how committed they were to getting dressed up, while they play absolutely garbage music out of tune with no rhythm lol. So much effort into the look then the music is just like wtf hahahaha! That last guy on the drum too, omg. This is hilarious
I deeply doubt that the quality of some instruments showed was that bad (especially at sound) as you displayed here. There are more accurate rebuilds played by musicians on YT sounding far better.
why is it in Rome II and Attila as Roman Empire the horn sounds more deeper and echoing on a battlefield with a longer carry when it sounds off?but here it sounds like it is weak....
Да уж лира, три аккорда два десятка струн. Во дворе подростки на гитаре и то лучше лабают... Тяжко было жить в римской империи , сколько пиров и на каждом слушай такую какофонию.
I find it a bit ridiculous how weak these people play on these instuments. These instruments have far more potential. If you check youtube for "Cornu de Pompeii" with Abraham Cupeiro you will understand.
I understand achieving Roman standards is too much to ask for. Thankfully, practice makes perfect. Come back in a year or so, chaps. Addendum: Whether they were musicians or not is irrelevant. They were signalists, and they had to be really good at it, that is, knowing the codes, and giving clear, definite, specific and strong sounds. Commanding many thousands of people with different roles and specialties under ever changing circumstances, with the necessary precision, is complicated. Besides, war is a matter of life and death. Furthermore, the Romans were experts at ruling the world. So the signalists _had_ to be skilled at their jobs. Also, they were likely more intelligent and competent than many of us in this comment section. Plus, much more brave and powerful. No need to think we're on a higher level than they were.
Knowing codes required and still requires just as much practice and skill as being a musician. Early orchestras borrowed trumpets from the army because they can piece together something that actually sounds good.
