[Glendower's castle, Wales.]

Mortimer:

With all my heart, I'll sit and hear her sing.
By that time will our book, I think, be drawn.

Glendower:

Do so, and those musicians that shall play to you
Hang in the air a thousand leagues from hence,
And straight they shall be here. Sit and attend.

William Shakespeare
1 Henry IV, 3.1.218-222

  
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Who Is Dancing on Heinlein's Moon?
Mysterious 1949 Ballet Performance
on the Set of Destination Moon
by William S. Higgins
  

  
Swedish girl dancing
postcard 1907

Columbia phonograph cylinder
Everybodys Magazine
  

  
The old gentleman complained that he had heard little music at home these days. To give him his fill for once, Felix played copiously — mornings for Goethe alone; evenings in a larger company. As always, Goethe was interested in the biological and historical aspects of music. As we know from his correspondence with Zelter and also from Felix's accounts, Goethe regarded music as something "evolvable"; it was to him a part of natural history and fascinated him in the same way as the growth of crystals. Indeed, why should not music be experienced in strata? At that very time Ludwig Spohr was experimenting with a Historical Symphony in which he intended to copy the styles of various eras. The experiment was a failure, of course, but it was an attempt in the spirit of Goethe.

Heinrich Eduard Jacob
"Parting with Goethe"
Felix Mendelssohn and his Times
translated by Richard and Clara Winston