Meaning of music of the spheres | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A continuous, glorious, harmonious set of sounds that are not audible to ordinary human beings, said in ancient and medieval Western cosmology to be produced by the movement of the celestial bodies.
   uncountable
2. Sublime, mysterious music.
   figuratively, uncountable

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Examples

“For sure the milder planets did combine On thy auspicious horoscope to shine . . . And then, if ever, mortal ears Had heard the music of the spheres”

“He said that, the people of their island had their ears adapted to hear "the music of the spheres . . .".”

“Like that same mystic music of the spheres, Which no one hears, so loudly though it rings”

“Like most dreamers, to whom it is given sometimes to hear the music of the spheres, Heyst, the wanderer of the Archipelago, had a taste for silence.”

“We once believed in the music of the spheres but now we hear silence—static and silence.”

“A further wave of fluorescent balloons gently deflated, exhaling into miniature harmonicas to breathe an eerie music of the spheres.”

“As its imagery becomes more surreal and mystically abstract, Mr. Glass's ethereal electronic score, which suggests a Himalyan music of the spheres, gathers force and energy.”

“The last works of Beethoven—the Symphony No. 9, the "Missa Solemnis," the late string quartets, the final piano pieces and the variations—are music of the spheres, mercurial, mysterious and never to be entirely understood.”

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