My love shall hear the music of my hounds.
Uncouple in the western valley; let them go.
Dispatch, I say, and find the Forester. [A Servant exits]
We will, fair queen, up to the mountain’s top
And mark the musical confusion
Of hounds and echo in conjunction.
– William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 4, Scene 1. On the morning of their wedding Theseus and Hippolyta are in the woods with a hunting party. The Duke wants Hippolyta to join him on the mountain summit to watch his hounds in action in the valley below. Obviously proud of his hunting animals, Theseus uses a metaphor to compare their howling to "music."