Here’s the snippet of Vangelis’s long-form work, Heaven and Hell, which served as the main theme to Carl Sagan’s teevee series Cosmos.
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Lovely music. I've always found it rather melancholy, but in a good way. In conjunction with Cosmos, it speaks of fragility and vastness, which I imagine is exactly what Sagan wanted it to convey. It is the non-fiction TV version of the "sensawunda" you often speak of in SF.