These two musical examples, composed nearly 400 years apart, model a core element of Stoic therapy: By meditating on the fragility of time, Stoics seek not to instill dread, but to reveal death and transience as natural aspects of the human experience that can be faced without anxiety.
https://theconversation.com/how-stoicism-influenced-music-from-the-french-renaissance-to-pink-floyd-181701