feeding my er, confirmation bias; methinks that many of our n- domesticated beasts savour the flavour of {whatever Be the nature of Music} better than many within our tribes of humans, somehow avoiding becoming inured to its transcendence, despite the jillions of Decibel-hours that perfuse Our varied daily noise-sources.

(But I could be wrong; I Was, once.)

re Haydn: friend in (then, London) had the complete Haydn symphonies (but he do string quartets and lots more, we know) and I was abandoned one long day as she attended to chores: passages withinin those symphonies are Indeed pure magick, others have been so Over-played on earlier 'classic music/commercial' stations such that ... you know.) Me grateful for his genius. :-)