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'''Time's music''' was an endless song played by [[Time (mythology)|the Goddess Time]] in conjunction with the endless flow of [[time]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'') which was audible in the physical dimension of [[N-Space]] as the '''[[Music of the Spheres]]'''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hunting of the Slook (short story)|The Hunting of the Slook]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gift (audio story)|The Gift]]'') The music was time itself resonating forever on the [[Omniverse|omniversal]] [[Cat's Cradle (Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible)|strings]] of the [[Possibility Tree]], moving through [[Space]], lighting [[star]]s, and turning [[sphere]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hunting of the Slook (short story)|The Hunting of the Slook]]'')  

On the [[astral plane]], Time's music was a timeless melody played on a [[flute]]. It sounded like the [[wind]] singing. The flute was an instrument of [[imagination]] and the music was "the fretwork on which perception is hung", relating to Time's domain of [[memory]]. [[Ace]] once heard this music as she saw the Goddess pouring time itself into the universe through an astral version of the [[Crevasse of Memories That Will Be]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'') In a later era of [[Gallifreyan history]], wind-like flute music was associated with memories of the [[Pythia]], and played during the giant puppet shows of the ''[[Mystery of the New Time]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'')

Some preternaturally dissonant music could threaten Time's music and therefore threaten all universes. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hunting of the Slook (short story)|The Hunting of the Slook]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gift (audio story)|The Gift]]'') The [[Eighth Doctor]] believed that [[the Gift (The Gift)|the Gift]] could end universes in this way. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gift (audio story)|The Gift]]'')  

When [[Sartia]] viewed [[Possibility Tree|Time's infinity]], she saw "time dancing with space, stars flickering like ghosts caught by the music of the spheres". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Thief Who Stole Time (audio story)|The Thief Who Stole Time]]'')