Music and language also have even more in common. Here's excerpt from an essay I did in the first year of my degree:

As language is such an essential thing for humans to learn, infants as young as eight to ten months are starting to determine which sounds are linguistically significant (Kuhl, 2006). Research show that as people grow older and fit into their culture and language, this ability to phonetically differentiate between word and letter sounds becomes more difficult. As music requires careful listening to individual notes and their rhythmic values whilst language requires listening for individual phonemes combined with the intonation, both end up being processed by the brain in similar ways (Kindermusic, 2011). Stanford researchers found that music listening training improves the brains ability to differentiate between fast and continually changing sounds. This is a vital skill to enhance for phonemic awareness, which is important for acquiring a foreign language (Gaab, 2005). Studies also show a high degree of correlation between phonemic awareness and pitch discrimination. “The ability to perceive slight differences in phonemes appeared to depend on the ability to extract information about the frequencies of the speech sounds”. Researchers have suggested that singing is a great way to learn language as it molds these two abilities into an effective method of learning (Lamb, 2007). This not only shows music's ability to calm and improve attention in students, but also the ability to be a whole method of teaching together. So the areas of the brain that are also used to process language are being activated through the listening of music, allowing one another to work in harmony gives was to a much faster learning process.