The comments here remind me how music notation has adopted Italian as the default language with all other musicians must follow. > There are some Italian terms

The comments here remind me how music notation has adopted Italian as the default language with all other musicians must follow. > There are some Italian terms like 'tempo', 'adagio', 'allegretto' and 'rallentando' which are only used in the context of writing or reading music. But others, like 'concerto', 'piano', 'soprano' and 'opera' were so stylish that they have made their way from the original Italian into our everyday musical vocabulary. https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/music-theory/why-italian-words-in-music-notation/ https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/music-theory/why-it...