Moreover, the lyrics are also rich in content, including ancient secular poems, religious ceremony songs, theme epics accompanied by tibial pipes, songs celebrating victory and funeral lamentations. In the 4th century BC, there were primitive and unique theatrical performances in ancient Rome, which mainly reproduced the rhythm and rhythm in agricultural labor. The combination of song and dance, accompanied by humorous teasing, allows the performers to improvise freely and interact with the audience from time to time.
The ancient Romans only used music as an activity tool at first, but did not pay attention to its artistry, and even thought music was low-level. After the annexation of ancient Greece, a large number of ancient Greek artists and poets poured into Rome, which gradually brought music prosperity to ancient Rome: music began to become a discipline of aristocratic young men and women, and the upper class widely accepted the influence of ancient Greek music as a symbol of identity and upbringing. Professors and performers from ancient Greece are highly respected. The nobles not only sponsored music creation and performance activities, but also selected slaves to cultivate their musical talents for their own appreciation and entertainment.
In addition to entertaining music performances, the development of vocal music elements integrated into literary forms did not stagnate in ancient Rome, mainly reflected in the imitation of ancient Greek lyric poems and dramas. Carter Ulus, Vergilius, Horace and Ovidius are all famous lyric poets in ancient Rome. Their poems mostly imitate ancient Greek lyric poems, and are also influenced by folk songs such as wedding songs and drinking songs, and sometimes they are sung with music in the theater.
But most lyric poems in ancient Rome were only for reading, and no longer appeared in the form of singing. The drama creation of ancient Rome was also deeply influenced by the drama of ancient Greece. As mentioned above, ancient Rome had its own unique drama form, and this local drama form was quickly replaced by Greek drama performance and creation, and it also got new development.
In the tragedies of ancient Rome, the singing part, especially the chorus part, was rarely used. Judging from LuciusSeneca's works, there are solos or duets alternating with dialogues, and there are some chorus songs in some works, but the proportion is small.
Because almost all the ancient Roman tragedies before the imperial era were lost, the chorus in the ancient Roman tragedies took a turning point in the integration with ancient Greek music. Different from ancient Greece, comedy was more popular than tragedy in ancient Rome, although comedy creation often imitated the plot of ancient Greek tragedy at that time, and singing was essential in ancient Roman comedy.