->''"I'm not very good at, uh, singing songs, but, uh, here's... here's a try..."''
-->-- '''Creator/CarlSagan'''

''[[http://symphonyofscience.com/ Symphony of Science]]'' is a WebOriginal series of music videos created by John Boswell ("melodysheep"). Most of the videos consist of autotuned quotes from Creator/CarlSagan's ''Series/CosmosAPersonalVoyage'', along with quotes from other scientists who vary with each video.

Songs in the series:
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* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc A Glorious Dawn]]'' (Creator/CarlSagan and Creator/StephenHawking)
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk We Are All Connected]]'' (Creator/CarlSagan, UsefulNotes/RichardFeynman, UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson and Series/{{Bill Nye|TheScienceGuy}})
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vioZf4TjoUI Our Place in the Cosmos]]'' (Creator/CarlSagan, UsefulNotes/RichardDawkins, Michio Kaku and Robert Jastrow)
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOLAGYmUQV0 The Unbroken Thread]]'' (Creator/CarlSagan, Creator/DavidAttenborough and Jane Goodall)
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cd36WJ79z4 The Poetry of Reality]]'' (Michael Shermer, Jacob Bronowski, Creator/CarlSagan, UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson, UsefulNotes/RichardDawkins, Jill Tarter, Lawrence Krauss, UsefulNotes/RichardFeynman, Brian Greene, Creator/StephenHawking, Carolyn Porco, and PZ Myers)
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ5sWfhkpE0 The Case for Mars]]'' (Creator/CarlSagan, Robert Zubrin, Brian Cox, and Penelope Boston)
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PT90dAA49Q A Wave of Reason]]'' (Creator/CarlSagan, Bertrand Russell, Sam Harris, Michael Shermer, Lawrence Krauss, Carolyn Porco, UsefulNotes/RichardDawkins, UsefulNotes/RichardFeynman, Phil Plait, and James Randi)
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HBkZPyfpdE The Big Beginning]]'' (Creator/CarlSagan, Creator/StephenHawking, UsefulNotes/RichardDawkins, UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson, Tara Shears)
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB7jSFeVz1U Ode to The Brain!]]'' (Creator/CarlSagan, Robert Winston, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Jill Bolte Taylor, Series/{{Bill Nye|TheScienceGuy}}, Oliver Sacks)
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0vlrTVC2tQ Children of Africa]]'' (Jacob Bronowski, Alice Roberts, Carolyn Porco, Jane Goodall, Robert Sapolsky, UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson, and Creator/DavidAttenborough)
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZGINaRUEkU The Quantum World]]'' (Creator/MorganFreeman, Creator/StephenHawking, Michio Kaku, Brian Cox, UsefulNotes/RichardFeynman, and Frank Close)
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akek6cFRZfY Onward to the Edge!]]'' (UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson, Carolyn Porco, Brian Cox)
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxDOpAM2FrQ The Greatest Show on Earth!]]'' (David Attenborough, UsefulNotes/RichardDawkins, and Series/{{Bill Nye|TheScienceGuy}})
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ige2YBBJeh4 The World of the Dinosaurs]]'' (Alice Roberts, Series/{{Bill Nye|TheScienceGuy}}, Nigel Marvin, and Dallas Campbell)
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g4d-rnhuSg We Are Stardust]]'' (UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson, UsefulNotes/RichardFeynman, and Lawrence Krauss)
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHP9Rh-ooh0 Our Biggest Challenge]]'' (Series/{{Bill Nye|TheScienceGuy}}, David Attenborough, Richard Alley, and Creator/IsaacAsimov)
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuxFXHircaI Secret of the Stars]]'' (Michio Kaku, Brian Cox, UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson, Brian Greene, and Lisa Randall)
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e5-0t0pTF0 Monsters of the Cosmos]]'' (UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson, Morgan Freeman, Michio Kaku, Lawrence Krauss)
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FiNZvuOkzY Waves of Light]]'' (Brian Cox)
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKjbHv_0KKY Beyond the Horizon]]'' (Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Emily Lakdawalla, Carl Sagan)
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBikbn5XJhg Timelapse of the Entire Universe]]'' (Brian Cox, Carl Sagan, David Attenborough)
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA Timelapse of the Future]]'' (David Attenborough, Craig Childs, Brian Cox, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michelle Thaller, Lawrence Krauss, Michio Kaku, Mike Rowe, Phil Plait, Janna Levin, Stephen Hawking, Sean Carroll, Alex Filippenko, and Martin Rees.)
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High quality originals of all videos can be downloaded from the project's website.
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!!Tropes used in this series

* [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 Apocalypse How, Class X-4]]: What ''Time Lapse of the Future'' ultimately leads to, the destruction of the universe though entropy. Though it's a ForegoneConclusion.
* [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX5 Apocalypse How, Class X-5]]: {{Discussed|Trope}} in ''Future'', in the form of speculating that any universe that fails to produce intelligent life capable of producing a PocketDimension is doomed to the same kind of cold, lonely fate as the one we're in now.
* ClipShow: Melodysheep is up-front about stitching together pre-existing video as the visuals to portray events, ranging from assorted documentaries, to fictional portrayal of disasters that haven't yet occurred like ''Film/DeepImpact'' and ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve''. A full list of the sources used is always in the video description.
* DarkReprise:
** The music from "Our Story in 1 Minute", showing a brief history of the Earth, returns as part of the first song in ''Timelapse of the Future'', "[[https://youtu.be/9Fq13j4ygyw Sun Mother]]"... which plays while showing [[EarthThatWas the DESTRUCTION of Earth]].
** "[[https://youtu.be/nEUEF8Ixti4 Ether]]" from ''Future'' first plays when black holes first begin to take over as the dominant structures of the universe, and is reprised as the second half of the penultimate song, "[[https://youtu.be/RdYf0oduteM The Rising Dawn Bellows Like Thunder]]", playing as the last ever supermassive black hole, the last remaining ''thing'' in the universe, breathes its last.
* EldritchAbomination: "Monsters of the Cosmos" portrays black holes as this. It's stated that within them, time stops, space makes no sense and the accepted laws of physics break down.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "Timelapse of the Entire Universe".
%%* HumansAreSpecial:
%%** Particularly in "Children of Africa":
%%---> "These beings, with ''soaring'' imagination\\
%% Eventually flung themselves and their machines\\
%% into interplanetary space..."
%%** And of course, Creator/CarlSagan's "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself".
%%* MeasuringTheMarigolds:
%%** Hugely inverted.
%%---> "The beauty of a living thing\\
%%is not the atoms that go into it\\
%%but the way those atoms are put together.."
%%** From the same song, Feynman's "But you've gotta stop and think about it, about the the complexity, to really get the pleasure."
* NaturalEndOfTime: The entire premise of ''Timelapse of the Future'' involves getting to this point.
%%* ScienceHero: Every scientist featured.
* TimeAbyss: Black holes in ''Timelapse of the Future''. For more than half of the video, even as the speed of time continues to double every five real-time seconds, they're the only objects in the universe.
* WhatWeNowKnowToBeTrue: {{Inverted|Trope}} with the topic of proton decay. ''Future'' assumes it to be true, but acknowledges that it might not be, and that time will take a very different path than what's portrayed if it turns out that protons are eternal.
%%* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Damn right!
%%* VoiceClipSong
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