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The Roman tuba (plural: tubae), or trumpet [1] [2] was a military signal instrument used by the ancient Roman military and in religious rituals. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] They would signal troop movements such as retreating, [ 6 ] attacking, or charging, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] as well as when guards should mount, sleep, [ 9 ] or change posts.
Sheneb (Ancient Egyptian: šnb) was the common name in Ancient Egypt for straight natural trumpets used for military purposes. [3] The natural trumpet was probably first used as a military instrument in Ancient Egypt. The trumpets depicted by the artists of the Eighteenth Dynasty were short straight instruments made of wood, bronze, copper or ...
A cornu or cornum (Latin: cornū, cornūs or cornum, "horn", sometimes translated misleadingly as "cornet"; pl.: cornua) was an ancient Roman brass instrument about 3 m (9.8 ft) long in the shape of a letter 'G'. The instrument was braced by a crossbar that stiffened the structure and provided a means of supporting its weight on the player's ...
Re-enactor with Pompeii-type gladius The Mainz Gladius on display at the British Museum, London. Gladius is the general Latin word for 'sword'. In the Roman Republic, the term gladius Hispaniensis (Spanish sword) referred (and still refers) specifically to the short sword, 60 cm (24 inches) long, used by Roman legionaries from the 3rd century BC.
The music of ancient Rome was a part of Roman culture from the earliest of times. Songs ( carmen ) were an integral part of almost every social occasion. [ 1 ] The Secular Ode of Horace , for instance, was commissioned by Augustus and performed by a mixed children's choir at the Secular Games in 17 BC.
The ancient carnyx was a wind instrument used by the Celts during the Iron Age, between c. 200 BCE and c. 200 CE. It was a type of trumpet made of bronze with an elongated S shape, held so that the long straight central portion was vertical and the short mouthpiece end section and the much wider bell were horizontal in opposed directions.
Buccina Ludovisi Battle sarcophagus: Detail roman wearing mail, and above him a cornicen, a junior officer who communicated signals with the military horn or buccina. A buccina (Latin: buccina) or bucina (Latin: būcina; Ancient Greek: βυκάνη), anglicized buccin or bucine, is a brass instrument that was used in the ancient Roman army, [1] similar to the cornu.
[2] [4] There existed another tradition of trumpets made of straight metal tubes of brass or silver that went back in Europe as far as the Greeks and Romans , and further back to the Etruscans, Assyrians and Egyptians (King Tut's Trumpet). [3] After the fall of Rome, when much of Europe was separated from the remaining Eastern Roman Empire, the ...