Musical correspondences

Majors

Music

Fool

"Don't Worry, Be Happy"

Magician

Wagner

High Priestess

Sacred Spirit, Enigma

Empress

bird song

Emperor

Sousa

Hierophant

choir

Lovers

violin

Chariot

trumpets

Strength

(Renaissance) flute

Hermit

wind, and a tinkling sound, like maybe dripping water/melting snow

Wheel

Rush, because their music is so full of changes.

Justice

nothing

Hanged Man

folk music from British Isles (dulcimer)

Death

Da--dum, da-da--da da dum da dum da da. I don't know what this is called, some funeral march and I think it's also the Addams Family doorbell.

Temperance

harp

Devil

heavy metal

Tower

goth or crashing cymbals

Star

cicadas and crickets. When I was young, I was told that this was the sound of the stars twinkling, because they start their music at twilight, when the stars first start appearing.

Moon

Moody Blues

Sun

reggae, especially commercial, happy, touristy reggae

Judgment

trumpets

World

Music of the Spheres. Not that I know what that sounds like, but my intuition tells me it's appropriate.

 

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