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