Ciao, I'm the Managing Director of Marino Sounds, an Italian Studio.

If you need outstanding works from Italy, the Birthplace of Music, we would be glad to help you! Let me know!

Every country claims to be the birthplace of music. The Italian sort is, however, pretty damn good.

In music, you find numerous Italian words, such as concerto, sonata, tempo, aria, allegro, staccato, andante, lento and more. This is not a random event

Err.... Ciao, Manuel.

The "event" is certainly not random. A lot of the music terminology we still use today was conceived in Italy. English terminology (fast, slow, ballad, voicing, chord symbols) and the theory extracted from the study of Jazz and Blues, however, are more widely used today in popular music than the Italian terms, which are preferred in classical and other orchestral contexts.

If you were to choose a country as the birthplace of music, at least the music that later evolved into what we listen to today regardless of genre, would have to be Greece for melody and harmony (the modes, you know...), and Africa as a continent, if nothing else, for the strong rhythmic influence you hear in most forms of popular music. And when it comes to music technology, or any genre that makes wide use of this technology, it's English as a language, and more specifically the US as a country (what's the Italian term for "sampler", anyway?).

None of this makes any American, African or Greek composer better than the rest of us just because they were born there.

Greetings from Argentina, birthplace of... yours truly.

E.

Ok, but I think every musician should thank the Italians for most all our music and art terms. Perhaps this is because during the Renaissance, the heart of the arts was beating from Italy. Famous composers, artists, and violin makers such as Vivaldi, Michelangelo, and Stradivari were Italian. The church funded much of the arts at the time.

Agreed!

E.