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Mixed-gender choruses performed for leisure, celebration, and religious ceremonies. Instruments included the double-reed aulos and a plucked string instrument, the lyre, principally the special sort called a kithara. Music was an essential a part of training, and boys had been taught music beginning at age six. Greek music principle included the Greek musical modes, that eventually grew to become the premise for Western non secular and classical music. Later, influences from the Roman Empire, Eastern Europe, and the Byzantine Empire modified Greek music. The Seikilos epitaph is the oldest surviving example of a complete musical composition, together with musical notation,…