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Flaccus (composer)
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Flaccus has the distinction of being the only composer of Ancient Rome of whom any music is alleged to remain. A musical phrase accompanying a single line of Terence's Play '' Hecyra '' was copied in the Eighteenth Century by Italian composer Arcangelo Corelli from a 10th Century Manuscript ; however, musicologist Thomas J. Mathiesen comments that it is no longer believed to be authentic.


REFERENCES


  • Guenther Wille: ''Musica Romana: Die Bedeutung der Musik im Leben der Roemer'' (Amsterdam: Schippers, 1967), 158ff, 308ff

  • Egert Pöhlmann, ed. ''Denkmäler altgriechischer Musik: Sammlung, Übertragung und Erläuterung aller Fragmente und Fälschungen'' (Nuremberg, 1970). ISBN 3418000312 (1971 edition)

    • : This book contains the single Neumed line of music.