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Definition of Music of the spheres
1. Noun. An inaudible music that Pythagoras thought was produced by the celestial.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Music Of The Spheres
Literary usage of Music of the spheres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakespeare in Music: A Collation of the Chief Musical Allusions in the by Louis Charles Elson (1901)
"... Disliked Music — Shakespeare's Jests at Music Balanced by His Tributes to the
Art — Evening Music — The Music of the Sea — The Music of the Spheres. ..."
2. Educational Review by Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew, Charles Alexander Nelson (1898)
"I don't know anything about the ' Music of the Spheres,' but I will answer some
of the questions under I." " I do not remember of the ..."
3. A Short History of Astronomy by Arthur Berry (1899)
"... is the origin Oi" the idea of the music of the spheres which recurs continually
in mediaeval speculation and is found occasionally in modern literature. ..."
4. A Treasury of English Prose by Logan Pearsall Smith (1920)
"THE music of the spheres IT is my temper, and I like it the better, to affect
all harmony; and sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note ..."
5. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers (1847)
"... who thinks that the music of the spheres should supply the Nor can we well
conceive how a man should be able ! to carry so much luggage with him as ..."
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