Musica is Music


 By show of hands, who loves music? Music can smooth the troubled soul or can get you pumped up for the big game. In history, it took musical theory a long time to get to the fully fledged science it is today. Ancient Rome didn’t even know about all the possible notes and any music they had would have been in the pentatonic scale discovered by Pythagorus.

It’s important to remember that the ancient Romans considered lots of things to be musical and not just something with a backbeat and a tune. Poetry, art, or a scientific pursuit. In fact the word “musica” is derived from the word “muse.” The muses were ancient deities in charge of enlightening men’s minds with art,

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