music of the spheres

noun

1. a music, imperceptible to human ears, formerly supposed to be produced by the movements of the spheres or heavenly bodies.

music of the spheres

noun

1. the celestial music supposed by Pythagoras to be produced by the regular movements of the stars and planets

Word History and Origins

Origin of music of the spheres¹

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

He thought this “music of the spheres” would be imperceptible to the human ear.

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The fact that each of these planetlike orange circles is itself made up of tiny orange circles makes clear that the music of the spheres is also the music of atoms, and vice versa.

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Never before has humanity reached out to so deliberately strike such a lasting chord in the music of the spheres.

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Assessing one of the few commercial recordings of Herschel’s compositions, the Gramophone critic Stanley Sadie wrote that this is “no music of the spheres,” and bemoaned its structural predictability and lurching modulations.

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How much you can tolerate all this will depend on your own particular attunement to the music of the spheres.

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