MUSIC OF THE SPHERES

My attention was drawn to the hymn This Is My Father's World by remembering that it includes the words 'Music of the Spheres.' The concept is an ancient one, explored by Pythagoras and contradicted by Aristotle. The astronomer Kepler took it very seriously; he concluded that "the Solar System was composed of two basses (Saturn and Jupiter), a tenor (Mars), two altos (Venus and Earth), and a soprano (Mercury), which had sung in “perfect concord,” at the beginning of time, and could potentially arrange themselves to do so again."

The imaginations of contemporary musicians and scientists are stimulated by considering relationships among the vibrations of notes which produce music and the arrangement of planets in various solar systems.

This video lets us listen to music which would be produced by The Harmonic Series Played By Planets.

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An Astronomer who is also a musician has produced a Ted Talk on this subject. Matt Russo introduces a way to hear with our ears what we thought was only visible to our eyes.

What does the universe sound like? He gives a musical tour of what the universe sounds like.

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Since sound does not travel through a vacuum whatever sound our earth makes would not be audible from space. However our planet does emit electromagnetic waves which can be translated to audible sound wave just like radio waves become sound waves from our radios. This video lets us listen to waves Earth produces.

Electromagnetic waves as sound

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Returning to our original hymn, This Is My Father's World, we can listen to a recording which is arranged to emphasize that the world is the vehicle through which spiritual music is being played.

 This Is My Father's World

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The Dawn of a new day

 

As the sun peak 

Over the horizon

Many are awakening 

Many are rising.

The dawn of a new day,

Approaching the light

As the Great Spirit 

approach all the living.

Ending the fight of night, 

Awakening the bulk 

of humanity’s slumber

Into their comforting rise.

As the sun is the glory of the day, 

So is the Ever-Present the light of all lights,

The Great Spirit, the glory of the universe.

And so the celestial light shines, 

Awakening all to see clearly.

The new era, the dawn of light, 

Shinning in the midst of a a dark night,

Which must fade again

Into day.

A brand new day dawns today,

Wake up from the pleasant dream

Which seems to never end.

Cycles come and cycles go,

But today is the day to awaken to new possibilities.

The birds are chirping a new song 

of life, of harmony.

Above all things the song reminds me of my own wings,

And that it is no longer night.

It is a new day

We approach the new day in a new way.

Humanity is reaching ripeness today.

It is a time of love.

A time of peace is approaching,

It is a time of knowing.

We must face the east,

The stars are glowing in the sky and within.

It is time to throw away

 all burdens and sing,

The song you have found within,

It is the dawn of a new day.