Music of the Spheres, Part I: Assigning Musical Attributes to Planets Modally - Hermetically, Esoterically

When I was originally doing research to develop an esoteric musical framework for the Pegataur Working, my initial line of questioning was primarily concerned with finding a way to map musical theory to hermetic or occult philosophy.  While it wasn't ultimately detailed enough in the low-level way I was looking for, I did stumble across an interesting bit of old world thinking about the Music of the Spheres.

If you're not familiar with the Music of the Spheres, this is a concept closely tied to the Old School pre-heliocentric worldview.  Basically, the heavenly hiearchy, with Earth at the center, of course, was thought of as a divine symphony that actually created a harmonius soundtrack for the universe.  As the Greeks had discovered some time ago, there were mathematical formulae underlying the divisions of tones into scales, and calculations about fret-spacing on the neck of stringed instruments that could be used to develop tonally accurate instruments.  It isn't a far stretch to take Pythagorean mysticism and combine it with a Western religious and scientific worldview and superimpose this earthly knowledge onto the heavens.  This is literally consistent with the old Hermetic axiom "As above, so below."    More...