A new analysis of surviving ancient compositions reveals how the Greeks and Romans tuned their instruments.

Greek philosophers Democritus, Epicurus, and later the Roman Lucretius imagined that everything in ... In the same way, the melodic lines of ancient vocal music are not straight but curved, suggesting ...

While in Rome, Akiho didn’t spend all his time wandering around the city. “I wrote three or four orchestra pieces there,” he recalled. “I wrote more music than I had ever done in my life ...