Astromusic
Revised January, 2007
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Space Travel and Exploration
Age of Aquarius sung by the Fifth Dimension
Astral Traveler sung by Yes
Astro Man sung by Jimi Hendrix
Astro Zombies by the Misfits
Astronomy by Blue Oyser Cult
Astronomy Domine sung by Pink Floyd
Bennie and the Jets sung by Elton John
Come Sail Away sung by Styx ("...climbed aboard their starships and headed for the skies...")
Countdown sung by Rush
Cosmic Charlie sung by the Grateful Dead
Eye in the Sky sung by Alan Parsons Project
Fly Me to the Moon performed by Harold Bradley
Galileo sung by Its A Beautiful Day
Hands in the Sky (Big Shot) by Straylight Run
Heavenly by Harry Connick, Jr.
Hurry Up the Sky by Jen Chapin
I Want to Go to the Sun sung by Peter Frampton
Infinite Wanderer composed by R. Argent
Jed the Humanoid by Grandaddy
Journey Among the Stars by Sun Ra
Killer Klowns from Outlet Space by the Dickies
Launch by Borton/Third Stage
Lunch for the Sky by Socratic
Moonlight Mile sung by the Rolling Stones
Moonshooter sung by Mike Rutherford
Once Around the Sun composed by R. Argent
Open the Sky by Halfwayhome
Ozone Baby sung by Led Zeppelin
Rocket sung by Smashing Pumpkins
Rocket Man sung by Elton John
Rocket Queen by Guns and Roses
Skys Beyond by Karuhesh
Sail on Solar Winds performed by Lancaster and Lumley
Satellite sung by Depeche Mode
Satellite by Robyn Hichcock
Solstice performed by the London Symphony Orchestra
South Side of the Sky sung by Yes
Space Circus by Chick Covea
Space Cowboy performed by the Steve Miller Band
Spacerman by The Dentists
Space Oddity sung by David Bowie
Space Truckin sung by Deep Purple
Spaceboy sung by Smashing Pumpkins
Spacetown by Happyhead
Star Man sung by David Bowie
Stargazer by Mother Love Bone
Starrider sung by Foreigner
Starship sung by Jefferson Starship
Starship Trooper sung by Yes
Streaks in the Sky by Thursday
Theme from Cosmos by Van Gelis
The Only Time sung by Nine Irich Nails ("lay my hands on heaven and the sun and the moon and the stars")
Ticket to the Moon sung by Electric Light Orchestra
Two Thousand Light Years from Home sung by the Rolling Stones
Under the Sky sung by Heart
Walking on the Moon sung by the Police
Watch the Sky by Something Corporate
Watcher of the Skies sung by Genesis
When I Look to the Sky by Train
Where the Sky begins by Over It
World Machine by Level 42
Ziggy Star Dust sung by David Bowie
Sun
A Milion Exploding Suns by Horse the Band
Away from the Sun by 3 Doors Down
Behind the Sun by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Between Sun and Moon by Rush
Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden
Blister in the Sun by Violent Femmes
Children of the Sun sung by Billy Thorpe
Cue the Sun by Forgive Durden
Dark of the Sun sung by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Daughters of the Midnight Sun by Cecilia
Dawnlight by Lightingale
Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me sung by Elton John
Earth in Search of a Sun sung by Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group
Eclipse sung by Pink Floyd
Fat Old Sun sung by Pink Floyd
Heart of the Sunrise sung by Yes
Here Comes the Sun sung by the Beatles
High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) sung by Tex Ritter
House of the Rising Sun sung by the Animals
I'll Follow the Sun sung by the Beatles
Invisible Sun sung by The Police
Island of the Sun by Stephen Bacchus
King of Pain ("There's a little black spot on the sun today") sung by The Police
Laugh at the Sun by Rusted Root
Looking at the Sun by Mathew Sweet
Lost in the Sun sung by Dan Fogelberg
Lucky Old Sun sung by Johnny Ray
Midnight Sun sung by Asia
Mister Sun and Mister Moon sung by Paul Revere and the Raiders
My Sundown by Jimmy Eat World
New Rays from an Ancient Sun performed by Joe Satriani
NJ Sunsets by None Two Soon
Northern Lights by the Rippingtons
Of Course We’ve All Seen the Sun by This Day & Age
People of the Sun by Machine
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun sung by Pink Floyd
Shine by Collective Soul
Silent Sun sung by Genesis
Silent Sunlight sung by Cat Stevens
Stare at the Sun by Thrice
Staring at the Sun by the Escape Club
Sun by Mae
Sun in the Stream, The, by Enya
Sun is Burning sung by Simon and Garfunkle
Sundown by Jesus and the Mary Chains
Sunface by Tanita Tikaram
Sun Goes Down, The, by Level 42
Sun King by The Cult
Sun Maid by Soul Asylum
Sun Versus Moon by Sage Francis
Sundance by Nightingale
Sunrise sung by the Grateful Dead
Sunrise sung by Uriah Heep
Sunshine sung by Alice in Chains
Sunshine sung by Donavan
Sunshine on My Shoulder sung by John Denver
Sweet Sunshine by Beck
Tequila Sunrise by the Eagles
The Sun by Street & Nowhere
The Sun is a mass of Incondescent Gas by They Might Be Giants
Three Sunrises sung by U2
Total Eclipse of the Heart sung by Bonnie Tyler
Two Suns in the Sunset sung by Pink Floyd
Under the Sun sung by Black Sabbath
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Waiting for the Sun sung by the Doors
Warmth of the Sun sung by the Beach Boys
Wasted Sunsets sung by Deep Purple
Moon
Another Moon by Meat Puppets
Bad Moon Rising sung by Credence Clearwater Revival
Big Bad Moon performed by Joe Satriani
Black Moon Creeping sung by Black Crows
Blue Moon sung by the Marcells
Child of the Moon sung by the Rolling Stones
Dark Side of the Moon sung by Pink Floyd
Fishin' for the Moon performed by Benny Goodman
Fool Moon Boogie by Jeff Beck and the Jan Hammer Group
Full Moon sung by Herbert Groenermeyer
Girl on the Moon sung by Foreigner
Half Moon Bay by William Auva
How High the Moon sung by Nat King Cole
Island of the Moon by Stephen Bacchus
It's Only a Paper Moon sung by Nat King Cole
Love of a Silent Moon by Cecilia
Luna sung by Smashing Pumpkins
Lousiana Moon sung by Alabama
Man on the Moon sung by REM
Me and the Moon by Something Corporate
Moon Crazy sung by the Blue Oyster Cult
Moon Dance by Van Morrison
Moon is Dawn, The by Further Seems Forever
Moon over Miami
Moon River sung by Andy Williams
Moon Rocks sung by the Talking Heads
Moon Shadow sung by Cat Stevens
Moonage Daydream sung by David Bowie
Moonbeams performed by 101 Strings
Moonchild sung by King Krimson
Moondance sung by Van Morrison
Moonlight Drive sung by the Doors
Moonlight Kiss by Bap
Moonlight in Vermont sung by Frank Sinatra
Moonlight on Havasu Creek by Nicholas Gunn
Moonglow performed by Henry James
Moonlight Serenade performed by 101 Strings
Moonshine sung by Mike Rutherford
Moonwater by Himekami
Mountains of the Moon by the Grateful Dead
Mr. Moonlight by the Beatles
On Moonlit Bay
Paper Moon performed by King Cole Trio
Picasso Moon sung by Greatful Dead
Racing with the Moon sung by Vaughn Monroe
Shepherd Moon by Enya
Shine on Harvest Moon sung by the Inkspots
Silver Apples of the Moon sung by The Greatful Dead
Song of the Second Moon by Tom Dissevelt
Standing on the Moon sung by Greatful Dead
Taurus Moon performed by Jerry Mulligan
Tea House Moon by Enya
The Goodnight Moon by Rookie of the Year
The Tide by the Spill Canvas
Walking on the Moon sung by the Police
Wrong Side of the Moon sung by Squeeze
You are the Moon by the Hush Sound
Planets, Asteroids and Comets
Acustic Planet by Craig Chaquico
Coming of Kohoutek by Argent
Earth (Still Our Only Home) sung by Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group
Earth Story by Nicholas Gunn
Earth, Sun, and Moon by Midnight Oil
Fifty Three Miles West of Venus sung by the B-52's
From Heaven to Earth by Nicholas Gunn
Galileo sung by Amy Grant
Hello Earth sung by Kate Bush
I Turned Into a Martian by the Misfits
Jupiter's Child sung by Steppenwolf
Kohoutek sung by Journey
Mercury Rising by From Autumn to Ashes
Mother Earth is a Vicious Crowd sung by Live
Mother Earth’s Routine by Tom Chapin
Phobos and Deimos performed by Lancaster and Lumley
Planet Caravan sung by Black Sabbath
Planet Clair sung by the B-52's
Planet Earth sung by Duran Duran
Olympus Mons performed by Lancaster and Lumley
Perihelion and Aphelion performed by Gary Bartz
Ptolemy's Ptune performed by Zeitlin, Marsh and Harris
Teenagers from Mars by the Misfits
Third Stone from the Sun sung by Jimi Hendrix
Uranus Rock sung by Jimi
Until the End of the World sung by U2
Venus sung by Frankie Avalon
Venus and Mars sung by Paul McCartney and Wings
Volcanoes of Mercury performed by Rus Garcia and his orchestra
Wheel in the Sky sung by Journey
World Keeps Turning by William Auva
Woodpecker from Mars sung by Faith No More
Stars (including Shooting Stars)
A Handful of Stars sung by Johnny Mathis
Blood Clots and Black Holes by Thrice
Boy with a Moon and Star on his Head sung by Cat Stevens
Big Dipper sung by Elton John (album: A Single Man)
Black Holes in Sky sung by Labelle
Capricorn Sisters by Mother Love Bone
Catch a Star sung by Men at Work
Cygnus X-1 sung by Rush
Dark Star sung by the Grateful Dead
Death is a Star sung by the Clash
Falling Star sung by Karla Bonoff
Good Morning Starshine sung by Oliver
Head On by Jesus and Mary Chain ("...makes you want to pull the stars from the sky")
Lost in the Stars performed by Bary Bartz
Luck Star sung by Madonna
My Falling Star Wish by Get Well Soon
My Stars sung by Alice Cooper
North Star by the Rippingtons
One in a Million sung by Guns N Roses ("You're a shooting star.")
Open Door sung by Genesis ("...you can count the stars at night...")
Orion's Sword by Don Ellis and Survival
Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars
Shine on Your Crazy Diamond sung by Pink Floyd ("...like black holes in the sky...)
Shining Star sung by Earth, Wind and Fire
Shooting Star sung by Bad Company
Shooting Star sung by Elton John
Son of the Morning Star by Danzig
South Side of the Sky sung by Yes
Southern Cross sung by Crosby, Stills and Nash
Star of Sirius by Steve Hacket
Star Spangled Banner sung by U2
Star Star sung by the Rolling Stones
Stars Cascade, The by Hiching With Girls
Starburst performed by Gene Krupa
Starchild by Level 42
Stardust performed by Henry James
Stargazer sung by Neil Diamond
Starless sung by King Krimson
Starlight performed by the Electric Light Orchestra
Stars Fell on Alabama sung by Frank Sinatra
Stars of Warburton by Midnight Oil
Stella by Starlight
Supernova by Wayne Shorter
The Black Hole by Horse the Band
The Lights in the Sky are Stars by Montreux
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star - a folk song
Under the Milky Way by The Church
Ultraviolet sung by U2
Vincent (Starry Starry Night) composed by Don McLean
Waiting for a Star to Fall - Boy Meets Girl
Watching the Sky sung by the Bangles
Universe
After the Cosmic Rain by Chick Covea
Black Hole by Beck
Bullet in the Blue Sky sung by U2
Cosmic Thing sung by the B52's
Dark Nebula performed by Bary Bartz
Edge of the Universe sung by the BeeGees
ETI (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) sung by the Blue Oyster Cult
Heaven sung by Brian Adams
Hole in the Sky sung by Black Sabbath
Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy by Chick Covea
I Get Wild/Wild Gravity sung by Talking Heads
In the Beginning sung by Genesis
Interstellar Overdrive sung by Pink Floyd
Milky Way performed by Weather Report
Mother Universe by the Soup Dragons
My Blue Heaven sung by Frank Sinatra
Nebula by Incubus
On the Dark Side sung by John Cafferty and the Bever Brown Band
On the Western Skyline by Bruce Hornsby
She Blinded Me with Science sung by Thomas Dolby ("..the spheres are in commotion..")
Space Songs sung by Tom Glazer and Dottie Evans
Spiral Galaxy 28948 sung by Hawkwind
Stairway to Heaven sung by Led Zepplin
Symptom of the Universe sung by Black Sabbath
Universe by Hampton Hawes
Visions Cosmiques performed by Jean Guillou
Voices in the Sky sung by the Moody Blues
Winds of Space by Peter Davidson
CLASSICAL
(Alphabetically by Composer)
Abington, 4th Earl of: The Invocation of Neptune
Ahrold, Frank: Star Journey [ref. 1]
Bedford, David: Tentacles of the Dark Nebula [ref. 1]; Star's End [ref. 1]
Beethoven, Ludwig: Sonata #14 in C Sharp Minor (1st movement) Moonlight
Bentzon, Niels: Feature on Rene Descartes [ref. 2]
Blomdahl, Karl-Birger: Aniara-An Epic of Space Flight in 2038 A.D. [ref. 1]
Blow, John: Venus and Adonis
Boone, Charles: A Cool Glow of Radiation [ref. 1]
Brant, Henry: Fourth Millenium [ref. 1]
Brott, Alexander: Spheres in Orbit [ref. 1]
Cage, John: Atlas Eclipticalis [ref. 1]
Copland, Aaron: North Star
Crumb, George: Makrokosmos [ref. 1]; Star Child [ref. 2]
del Tredici, David: Syzygy [ref. 2]
Debussy, Claude: Claire de Lune (Moonlight)
Dessau, Paul: Ernstein [ref. 2]
Dodge, Charles: The Earth's Magnetic Field-Realizations in Computerized Electronic Sound[ref.1]
Eisler, Hans: Incidental Music to Brecht's Galileo Galilli [ref. 1]
Firstova, Elena: Earthly Life
Felciano, Richard: Galactic Rounds [ref. 2]
Glass, Philip: Einstein on the Beach [ref. 1]; North Star [ref. 2]
Golda, Friedrich: The Air from Other Planets [ref. 1]
Haydn, Franz J.: Symphony #43 - Mercury
Haydn, Franz J.: Sunrise
Hindel, George: Aria "Total Eclipse" in Samson [ref. 1]
Hindemith, Paul: The Harmony of the World [ref. 1]
Holmboe, Vagn: Symphony No. 10
Holst, Gustav: The Planets
Howe, Mary: Stars [ref. 1]
Hovhannes, Alan: Saturn [ref. 1]; Symphony No. 19-Vishnu [ref. 2]
Ivanov, Konstantin: Cosmic Symphony
Janacek, Leos: Mr. Broucek's Excursions to the Moon and into the 15th Century [ref. 1]
Kost'al, Arnost: Cosmic Nocturne for Piano and String
Lang, Istvan: Constellations [ref. 2]; Orchestra [ref. 2]
Langaard, Rued: Music of the Spheres [ref. 1]
Lloyd Webber, Andrew: Starlight Express
Mahler, Gustav: Song of the Eath
Matthus, Siegfried: Galileo [ref. 2]
Messiaen, Oliver: Visions of the Amen [ref. 1]; Des Canyons aux Etoiles
Moussorysky, Modest: Sunless
Mozart, Wolfgang: Symphony No. 41 in C Major - Jupiter
Norgard, Per: "Luna" for Orchestra [ref. 1]
Orff, Carl: A Play About the End of Time [ref. 1]
Orff: The Sun Warms Everything from Carmina Buravia
Partch, Harry: Castor and Pollux [ref. 2]; Cloud Chamber Music [ref. 2]
Penderecki, Krzysztof: Kosmogonia [ref. 1]; Fluorescences [ref. 2]
Pepin, Clermont: Symphony No. 3 - Quasars [ref. 1]
Perischetti, Vincent: The Creation [ref. 1]
Raitio, Vaino: The Moonlight on Jupiter [ref. 2]
Reutter, Hermann: Ein Wiegenlied, im Mondschein zu Singen (Lullaby by Moonlight)
Roberts, Myron: Nova [ref. 1]
Ruff, Willie and John Rodgers: Harmony of the World
Scriabin, Alexander: Universe [ref. 1]
Sibelius, Jean: Nightride and Sunrise
Skulte, Adolf: Symphony No. 3 - Cosmic [ref. 1]
Smit, Leo and F. Hoyle: Copernicus - Narrati and Credo [ref. 1]
Stockhausen, Karlheinz: YLEM [ref. 1]; Across the Boundaries [ref. 1]; Sirius [ref. 2]
Stravinsky, Igor: The King of the Stars
Takemitsu, Toru: Asterism for Piano and Orchestra [ref. 1]; Cassiopeia for Percussion and Orchestra [ref. 1]
Varese, Edgard: L'Astronome [ref. 1]
von Beethoven, Ludwig: Moonlight Sonata
Widmer, Ernst: Pulsars [ref. 2]
Xenakis, Iannis: Antikhthon
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Reference 1: Fraknoi, Andrew, "The Music of the Spheres:
Astronomical Sources of Musical Inspiration,"
Mercury, May-June, 1977, pp 15-19, 22.
Reference 2: Fraknoi, Andrew, "More Music of the Spheres:
Further Astronomical Sources of Musical
Inspiration," Mercury, Nov.-Dec., 1979, pp 128-132.
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