Music of the Spheres

The "Music of the Spheres" is the concept that the movement of the planets makes a kind of music that contributes to a massive celestial symphony.
This idea relates to Caliban's speech of 3.2.130:

"Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweetairs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices
That if I then had waked after long sleep
Will make me sleep again; and then in dreaming
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked
I cried to dream again."

As Professor Little described in class, a true utopia will come when people stop talking and regulating the world, and learn how to find peace in listening. The world is perfect in itself, and true happiness may come from enjoying this perfection through our senses. This idea relates back to Shakespeare and the writing of plays. As The Tempest was his last play, this passage may emphasize his decision to stop writing plays and let the world continue in its perfection without his direct involvement.

Taylor Price, Ian Hoch, Section B