Daniel Christlein wrote:

>But even the experience of listening to music that has no explicit
>programmatic or emotional connection to astronomy takes on a special
>quality in these settings...

While it's of course only a segment of a much larger work, the portion of
the last movement to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony accompanying the text:

"Sucht ihn ueberm Sternenzelt.
  Ueber Stenen muss er wohnen."

evokes for me the star-studded celestial canopy.

wm