Ancient Roman Music - Musica Romana - Pugnate II

Tracks "Risus Sativus" and "Hymnus Dianae" from Pugnate album.

Musica Romana is a well-known, internationally-acclaimed music ensemble dedicated to recreating the Ancient Roman music. Among other things, their music was featured the Europa Barbarorum, a video game mod for Rome: Total War. The Pugnate (Latin: fight!) album recreates the music at the gladiatorial games of Imperial Rome.

I do not claim any part of this video is mine and this music belongs to Music Romana. I have noticed YouTube lacks any examples of their work, so I thought it would be splendid if more people discovered this cultural treasure. If you like this music, be sure to support Musica Romana by purchasing their albums here: http://tinyurl.com/ykxboxx (Google Translated from German) or by emailing at preorder@musica-romana.de for information on how to order from the US. Remember, the more we support the group, the more successful and productive they can be!

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[ScipioAfricanusI]

This is very melodic. In what settings might this music have been performed?  Also, where is there an archive of such music or other audio vestigaes of Roman culture?

Thank you for performing a useful service and adding beauty from the roman civilzation to our own.

[generalpatton3]

@ScipioAfricanusI

Music archive? I could PM you a download link with all of my ancient music on Dropbox that I have uploaded... Plenty of people ask for that, so I posted quite a while ago.

Setting? Most music was in the Pugnate album was performed in either private parties or in various stages of the Games. This one would fit into the former category.

[danielf17]

I can see Spartacus comming in the Colosseum arena.

[RodsAndAxes]

@elinoulalikefairy Romanes Eunt Domus!

[zar2369]

..what the hell do you mean with "THEY" ?!... You have to say: "WE"... 'cause all the westerners are GREEK AND ROMAN... THIS IS OUR CIVILIZATION

[Mayasun84]

latina sum ego! Roma caput mundi!!! :-)

[lav764321]

@RodsAndAxes

apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, they did nothing!

[elinoulalikefairy]

@RodsAndAxes NO I am a CHRISTIAN ORTHODOX..../and I just know how to admire and RESPECT the culture of each counrty....You just seem to know nothin about the roman period so shut up.

[elinoulalikefairy]

@RodsAndAxes NO I am a Christian Orthodox.....I just know how to admit that the roman culture is a great one.....You probably dont have any kind of justice

[RodsAndAxes]

@elinoulalikefairy Are you from the Judean People's Front?  No, wait. The People's Front of Judea! Splitter!

[elinoulalikefairy]

@RodsAndAxes im not from rome or something.In fact i am from greece and if u dont know what the romans ever did for us then i would reccomend u a good book of hisory

[Mos2551]

2 Gauls listened to this....

[Warhorse8]

great interpretation of what ancient roman music was like

[EmpererDevian]

Who the fuck gave a thumbs down on this?

[RodsAndAxes]

What did the Romans ever do for us?

[GGava2705]

good ,very good music...are most of the Russians as cultured as you? great people

[AMNirvanaFan]

hail rome for it's glory, for no civilzation after rome, succed to the glory that rome has once achived, the one true civilization that deserved to exhist and keep there religon

[pedroissler]

Where we all came from.

[pedroissler]

Two thousand years of history before us.

[neonenour89]

@janedoe1026

may work..! :) but i don't think all the romans could stay quiet!! ahaha (I'm roman) :D

[janedoe1026]

@neonenour89 Yes, due to the way a Colosseum was built and the acoustics in a way amplified the sound so the crowd could hear music or speeches and the such. Hope that helps. :)

[neonenour89]

Do you really think it was possible to HEAR this weak music in a huge stadium like the colosseum??

[nohavemercy]

Looks like 1 person watches Rebecca Black to much.

[StevenJamesHumonen]

@neonenour89 Then this video is misleading.

[ahkoifish]

@generalpatton3 Could you send me the link to the ancient music too? =)