Music Ancient Greece Music was an important part of social and cultural life in Ancient Greece.

Music ians and singers played a prominent role in Greek theater.[18] Mixed-gender chor uses performed for entertainment, celebration, and spiritual ceremonies.[19] Ins truments included the double-reed aulos and a plucked string instrument, the lyr e, principally the special kind called a kithara. Music was an important part of education, and boys were taught music starting at age six. Greek musical litera cy created a flowering of music development. Greek music theory included the Gre ek musical modes, that eventually became the basis for Western religious and cla ssical music. Later, influences from the Roman Empire, Eastern Europe, and the B yzantine Empire changed Greek music. The Seikilos epitaph is the oldest survivin g example of a complete musical composition, including musical notation, from an ywhere in the world.