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(includes the "Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal," the world's oldest known melody) VIII. Ad Astra .
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:I love not Man the less, but Nature more".
The complete sequence of the piece consists of these eight movements: II. The Blue III. The Green IV. Moors V. Aurorae VI. Quiet as the Snow all_the_works_of_nature_which_adorn_the_world_v...
The "proper text" for the spoken parts of this composition includes:
The phrase is the title of the second disc of the 2020 album Human. :||: Nature. by the symphonic metal band Nightwish . It is an eight-part instrumental symphony that includes spoken word passages at the beginning and end. Spoken Passages (includes the "Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal," the world's
The overall title itself was inspired by a quote from , who used the phrase to describe the artist's goal of imitating nature through their craft. Nightwish - Human. :||: Nature. - Nuclear Blast USA
"The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization... lived there—on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. That's here. That's home. That's us". Full Movement List The complete sequence of the piece consists of
: Concludes with a passage from Carl Sagan's book Pale Blue Dot :
