However, the musical element of the Italian language can be explained technically. Indeed, it is achieved by the fact that most words end with a vowel giving a singing quality to the language. The use of double consonants as well as the length of the words made up a several syllables also helps in giving Italian the distinctive musical sound.
To help pronunciation we also use elision, where we drop a vowel to make pronunciation smoother. Having said that, Italian is also the language of music in the sense that Italians have greatly influenced classical music and its language. Therefore, many musical terms, instruments and much of the musical notation are in Italian.
Prior to his notation, music was not written down consistently or clearly nor in an accessible way. This was one of the most read treatises on music of the Medieval time.
Later on, the Italians continued to dominate the musical scene, so much so that their innovations enabled the creation of the opera in the 16th century.
The Italians had a great influence on much of classical music. They established Italian as the language of music in the same way as, for example, English is used today in most countries for IT and new technology terms because the Americans have mostly dominated this field. This explains why, if you read music, you will come across Italian words such as allegro, andante, con brio, vivace, moderato and so on.
You could probably expand that into a good answer. Michael is right on. The earliest scores to include elements such as dynamics such as Gabriele's 'Sonata Pian e Forte' are in Italian.
Elements introduced later after Italian dominance in music waned, such as fluttertounging, are rarely in Italian this one is in either German or English. This is potential reasonable explanation for why educated musicians of the past didn't mind reading Italian expressive markings and could understand them.
It doesn't really explain why they would preferentially choose Italian specifically as the primary language for music notation, though.
Italy wasn't exactly a country back then. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown.
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Scientists, medics, chefs, lawyers, and sportspeople all use jargon associated with their particular field and no one seems to have a problem with this. Curiously, such accusations are never levelled at sports commentary which contains some particularly impenetrable terms — leg before wicket cricket , triple salto gymnastics , offside rule football , to name but a few.
Beethoven: String Quartet No. Cavatina: Adagio molto espressivo Brodsky Quartet. The dynamics , or volume, of music might begin at piano soft and crescendo get louder to fortissimo very loud. People who write music even have ways to communicate techniques.
A musician might play the notes staccato short and sharp or legato smooth. And, of course, every musician knows to stop playing when they see Fine end. These are just a few of the Italian words commonly used in music. Can you think of any others? Do you agree that Italian is the language that sings?
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