Music, as his other pursuits, was a well-rounded passion for Leonardo da Vinci. He experimented with music, innovated and advanced it as a genre, as he has done with so many creative and scientific disciplines. He was a singer and instrumentalist, speculated on the meaning of music, invented musical instruments, designed sets for great court musical performances, studied musical acoustics and, not lastly, he himself composed very particular musical miniatures: his famous rebuses.

Now, to celebrate 500 years of Da Vinci, the Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, Mumbai, Royal Opera House and Avid Learning present Leonardo's Symphony, a performance of Italian renaissance music by the Sensus Ensemble. The Ensemble includes mezzosoprano Arianna Lanci, renaissance instrumentalist Adriano Sangineto, renaissance harpist Marianne Gubri and percussionist Marco Muzzati. Talking about the significance of renaissance music, Gubri, who has studied and graduated in Medieval Renaissance and Baroque harp in Paris, says, "Renaissance music in Italy was the result of different traditions: the first one, coming from the courts of Northern Europe, was the refined Franco-Flemish polyphonic, secular and sacred music based on mathematical proportions. The second one was about traditional and popular music from the Italian countryside, mainly music like strambotto, frottole and dances."