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The Love Hypothesis Playlist
Ali Hazelwood’s The Love Hypothesis blends lab-life precision, awkward proximity, and an unexpectedly tender romantic payoff—so this playlist moves through warm strings, intimate piano, and slow-building cinematic textures. Most tracks stay lyric-free and steady to support focused reading, while the two vocal selections land as “romance turning real,” mirroring the book’s fake-dating-to-feelings arc.
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Track List
20 songs
1
Morning Mood
Edvard Grieg · Morning Mood
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2
Spiegel im spiegel
Arvo Pärt · Arvo Pärt: Portrait
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3
An Ending (Ascent)
Brian Eno · Ascent
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4
Arrival of the Birds
The Cinematic Orchestra · The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos (Original Soundtrack)
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5
Weightless
Marconi Union · The Ambient Zone Just Music Cafe Vol 4
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Light Through The Veins
Jon Hopkins · Insides
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Melancholia II
William Basinski · Melancholia
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The Promise
Michael Nyman · The Piano: Music From The Motion Picture
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Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9, No.2
Frédéric Chopin · Chopin: Complete Nocturnes, Barcarolle, Berceuse
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10
On the Nature of Daylight
Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)
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11
All of Me
John Legend · Love In The Future (Expanded Edition)
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12
Say You Won't Let Go
James Arthur · Back from the Edge
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13
The Moldau
Bedřich Smetana · The Symphonies II
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14
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuto
Sergei Rachmaninoff · Rachmaninoff: The Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody
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Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64: Montagues and Capulets
Sergei Prokofiev · Rachmaninov, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev: Orchestral Works
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Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14
Sergei Rachmaninoff · Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op.45; Intermezzo "Aleko"; Vocalise, Op.34
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Scheherazade, Op. 35: I. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov · Rimsky-Korsakov, Sedlar: Symphonic Suite based on Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, Op. 35: 1. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship
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18
Dies irae (from Requiem)
Giuseppe Verdi · Classical Essentials : The Greatest Hits of Classical Music
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The Lark Ascending
Ralph Vaughan Williams · Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
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