Really interesting. Ever listen to Rick Wakeman's "King Arthur" or "Wives of Henry the VIII"?
Yeah. Not my kind of thing, but interesting. 
Odd... you'd think music would have been part of the heritage from the Greeks and Roman civilizations I wonder how that was lost... very interesting.
Attic Greece and Rome were largely oral cultures, despite having an upper class that was heavily involved in writing. Most of the literature is lost--for instance, Sophocles wrote 123 plays, of which only 7 exist in complete form. Music was both a folk practice taught directly from master to pupil, or part of plays, where performers learned by practice. Musical notation sufficient to play these works existed as far back as the 7th century BCE, though only a few fragments exist today. Oddly enough, that notation scheme was later lost to time, and Europe switched as a whole to one that made playing old works almost impossible--melody indicated only by direction of pitch, no rhythmic notation--until the 14th century ACE.
I'll put up something else of the period, later. Hope you liked it.
