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I just did a bit of googling about this and it seems to be believed by a lot of people and treated as a myth by a lot of others. It seems that Augustine did express surprise that Ambrose was reading silently but I wonder if that was just a custom of his time. It seems to be a mystery.
I remember reading in Plato's "Republic", decades ago, a discussion of people who read while listening to music. I suppose there's no reason that you couldn't read aloud while listening to music but the discussion was much about it drawing away concentration and focus. There's no indication here that I can recall whether the reading they discussed was silent or aloud but reading aloud and listening to music somehow seems unlikely.
Barry
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