Quando la musica diventa lingua franca – International Music Friendship.

«Music begins where the possibilities of language end» said the well-known Finnish composer Jean Sibelius and today this phrase finds its strength in an increasingly global world, characterized by continuous challenges in the field of communication including the need to learn foreign languages from an early age. The aim of this paper is to explore, in a new interpretation, the potential of music in two roles: a vehicle for the transmission of cultural values and a useful tool that can facilitate foreign language learning and create transversal competence [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]