Science

As an aging musician, performing since childhood, I can recall nearly every piece of music I have ever performed, still. I not only recall the words and notes that I, as a vocalist, performed but all the other voices' and instruments' and for some, I can see the written music in my head while it's playing. This applies to any genre.

With just a few notes from an intro and the whole song comes around in my memory within seconds. I can forget what I walked across to room for but I can remember an entire catalogue of music, over 1,000 pieces of music.

I would argue that language has a similar lasting power in memory in that a language, like a second language, is hard to forget. Thing about music, often called a language, is universal to all humans and possibly other species.