is claimed to have said on several occasions that he came from a planet in the Sirius system. To Stockhausen, Sirius stood for "the place where music is the highest of vibrations" and where music had been developed in the most perfect way. Sirius has been the subject of poetry. Dante and John Milton reference the star, and it is the "powerful western fallen star" of Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", while Tennyson's poem The Princess describes the star's scintillation: See also List of stars in Canis Major Notes References Citations Bibliography External links A-type main-sequence stars Am stars Articles containing video clips Astronomical objects known since antiquity Canis Majoris, Alpha Binary stars Canis Major BD-16 1591 Canis Majoris, 09 0244 048915 032349 2491 Stars named from the Ancient Greek language White dwarfs TIC objects