In Music
- In classical music, common time is constructed of four beats.
- The number of movements in a symphony.
- The number of completed, numbered symphonies by Johannes Brahms.
- The number of strings on a violin, a viola, a cello, double bass, a cuatro and a ukulele, and the number of string pairs on a mandolin.
- Four, an album by Blues Traveler
- 4, an album by Foreigner
- Miles Davis has a song entitled "Four."
- 4, a song by electronic artist Aphex Twin
- 4, an album by Beyoncé Knowles
- "Four colly birds" is the gift on the fourth day of Christmas in the carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
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“Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the moral significance of existence. But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“Poetry
Exceeding music must take the place
Of empty heaven and its hymns....”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)