La lingua della musica
Pythagoras thought maths was the language of music. It was an ambitious claim, though not altogether absurd: modern musicologists delight in discerning mathematical patterns in the works of Bach and Mozart. Nowadays, though, the language of music is surely Italian.
How on earth has this come about? Music has, from the first grunts of mankind, been made by everybody everywhere, and Italy might seem an improbable country to
