music of the spheres

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music of the spheres

A perfectly harmonious music thought by Pythagoras and later classical and medieval philosophers to be produced by the movement of celestial bodies but to be inaudible on the earth.

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music of the spheres

(Philosophy) the celestial music supposed by Pythagoras to be produced by the regular movements of the stars and planets

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mu′sic of the spheres′

an ethereal music, thought by Pythagoreans to have been produced by the movements of heavenly bodies.

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music of the spheres - an inaudible music that Pythagoras thought was produced by the celestial

euphony, music - any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds; "he fell asleep to the music of the wind chimes"

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An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres.

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"I don't quite understand that," said Polychrome, with a puzzled look; "but perhaps it's because I'm accustomed only to the music of the spheres."

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He said that, the people of their island had their ears adapted to hear "the music of the spheres, which always played at certain periods, and the court was now prepared to bear their part, in whatever instrument they most excelled."

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How the thought of her carries me back over wide seas of memory to a vague dim time, a happy time, so many, many centuries hence, when I used to wake in the soft summer mornings, out of sweet dreams of her, and say "Hello, Central!" just to hear her dear voice come melting back to me with a "Hello, Hank!" that was music of the spheres to my enchanted ear.

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The Galloway Consort will performThe Music of the Spheres at Loch Arthur Community, Cresset Hall in Beeswing tomorrow night.

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Journey Song CP1919 launches a fascinating evening entitled "Music of the Spheres", inspired by a quotation from the Greek polymath Pythagoras (569 - 490 BC): "There is geometry in the humming of the strings, There is music in the spacing of the spheres."

Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark at Town Hall; A memorised performance will bring a new dimension to the relationship between orchestra and audience, says Aurora's principal conductor Nicholas Collon. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY reports

Oh, I forgot to mention it turns out That this site, one thousand three hundred years Ago, was where Venerable Bede was based Could that be why the Music of the Spheres Seems to be singing from these trees and walls?

POEM OF THE DAY; The Jarrow Sparrow

These are reflected in each of the chapters of the book, so aptly given titles like Diamante, Jardin, Lucent, Music of the Spheres, Devotion, and Fauna.

Worth Her Weight in Precious Stones

Prospero initially employs Ariel's song coercively, but his ultimate turn to 'heavenly music' unites natural magic with Christianized theories of the music of the spheres to orchestrate social harmony.

Staging Harmony: Music and Religious Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Drama

Two things motivated her to make Missing Time, Serena explained - her amazement at the dark sky environment and a desire to listen to the stars, the so-called "music of the spheres'" which she did using homemade radio telescopes following instructions on a Nasa website.

Dishing up cocktail of sound to mark time; Yesterday we reported on Baltic's Infinity Pitch for kids. DAVID WHETSTONE now takes a look at the more grown-up exhibitions on show

'Throughout his existence man has been striving to hear the music of the spheres. Once and again he has seemed to himself to catch some phrase or a hint of the whole.