‘Musicality (…) is not a special ability, but is the application of general
abilities to music. The same abilities which enable a person to
distinguish differences between noises (…), enable him also to
distinguish differences in music. The ability to experience music is just
as finely woven into the total fabric of potential human abilities as the
potential for understanding speech, for reading, for motor skills, and
so on. Therefore, the effects of musicality can only be considered as
part of the total structure of human abilities’ (Moog, 1968:28).