On the structure of a Haydn symphony:

Ceri: I get it! It’s four twelve-minute pieces of music, not one fifty-minute piece of music! And each separate piece builds on the last ones until it all gets to one end!

I love being with people when they figure something like this out. The excitement is catching. It was just what I needed on the drive home.

Edited to reflect a different emphasis Feb 9, 9:42 am. And that pesky word “not” was shifted as well.