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The Universe Born of Sound

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Abstract

With these words Marius Schneider opens the first chapter of his essay Primitive Music, exploring those cultures that place the myth of a creative sound at the center of their cosmogony.

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    The planet Pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union in 2006 because of some of its characteristics, such as being the smallest in the Solar System. At the time of writing of Sitchin’s book, Pluto was still officially a planet.

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    Maurizio Agrò

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Agrò, M. (2023). The Universe Born of Sound. In: Music and Astronomy. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41524-1_2

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