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Thread #2915   Message #1283772
Posted By: Wilfried Schaum
29-Sep-04 - 03:19 AM
Thread Name: Military Jodies?
Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
Re: Latin marching songs, post from Tim Jaques.

These songs were sometimes recorded by Roman historians in their reports of triumphs, in former times a religious ceremony celebrating a victory. The imperator (supreme commander) was dressed and painted [sic!] red, drove on a cart to the Temple of Jupiter, followed by carts full of trophies, and behind marched his army singing bawdy songs about their commander.

The song for C. Julius Caesar runs: (Nicomedes was king of Bithynia, and to the glee of Rome Cesar fulfilled his duties as a special envoy sometimes in bed with Nicomedes.)
Change the Russian tune "Stenka Razin" from 3/4 to 4/4, and you have a fitting tune.