Ancient Greek music is totally lost to us, although we know that they wrote a lot on theory. Serious music research re-started with Lully and Rameau. I discovered them during this epidemic. It is notable how the torch of science passed from Lombardy to Paris to London and then New York, now maybe Shanghai, unable to stay for long anywhere. Apparently, reason cannot endure in one place, yet humanity crawls ahead.
They had this obsolete thing of writing numerals in Latin - MDCCXXII is 1720. I was among the lasts in learning Latin in school. I am that old!
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