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Voyager’s Infinite Playlist
The songs sent into space on the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft.
Selected by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan, these songs were etched into a 12-inch, gold-plated copper record that was placed aboard the two spaceships in 1977.
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F, first movement (4:40)
- Java: court gamelan, “Kind of Flowers” (4:43)
- Senegal: percussion (2:08)
- Zaire: Pygmy girls’ initiation song (0:56)
- Australia: Aboriginal songs “Morning Star” and “Devil Bird” (0:56)
- Mexico: “El Cascabel” (0:56)
- Chuck Berry: “Johnny B. Goode” (2:38)
- New Guinea: men’s house song (2:38)
- Japan: flute, “Crane’s Nest” (2:38)
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita No. 3 in E major for violin, Gavotte en rondeau (2:38)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Magic Flute, “Queen of the Night” aria (2:55)
- Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic: chorus, “Tchakrulo” (2:18)
- Peru: panpipes and drums (0:52)
- Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven: “Melancholy Blues” (3:05)
- Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic: bagpipes (2:30)
- Igor Stravinsky: Rites of Spring, sacrificial dance (4:35)
- Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Prelude and Fugue in C, No. 1 (4:48)
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Fifth Symphony, first movement (7:20)
- Bulgaria: “Izlel je Delyo Hagdutin” (4:59)
- Navajo Indians: night chant (0:57)
- Anthony Holborne: “The Fairie Round” (1:17)
- Solomon Islands: panpipes (1:12)
- Peru: wedding song (0:38)
- China: “Flowing Streams” (7:37)
- India: raga, “Jaat Kahan Ho” (3:30)
- Blind Willie Johnson: “Dark Was the Night” (3:15)
- Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B flat, Op. 130, Cavatina (6:37)