The Gilded Cage

Book Playlist

The Gilded Cage Playlist

by Lynette Noni

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 25, 2026

The instrumental opening moves between the intimacy of confinement and the uneasy grandeur of palace power, with tense, searching passages for Kiva’s mistrust and resolve. The vocal half turns toward betrayal, hidden motives, family bonds, and the cost of vengeance, following the book’s shift from survival to dangerous purpose.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Sicilienne, Op. 78

Gabriel Fauré · This is Fauré

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2

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Ralph Vaughan Williams · Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Lark Ascending etc.

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3

Nocturne No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2

Frédéric Chopin · Chopin: Nocturnes

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4

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in F Minor, Op. 8 No. 4, RV 297 "Winter": II. Largo

Antonio Vivaldi · Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

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5

Weightless

Marconi Union · The Ambient Zone Just Music Cafe Vol 4

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6

Halving The Compass

Helios · Eingya

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7

The Kiss

Trevor Jones · Last of the Mohicans (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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8

The Danish Girl

Alexandre Desplat · Piano Soundtracks

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9

you should see me in a crown

Billie Eilish · WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?

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10

Control

Zoe Wees · Golden Wings

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11

Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Tears For Fears · Songs From The Big Chair

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12

bury a friend

Billie Eilish · WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?

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13

my tears ricochet

Taylor Swift · folklore

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14

How Villains Are Made

Madalen Duke · Talking to Myself

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15

The Killing Kind

Marianas Trench · Phantoms

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16

Human

Sevdaliza · Ison

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17

Blood In The Cut

K.Flay · Every Where Is Some Where

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18

Everybody Knows

Leonard Cohen · I'm Your Man

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19

Für Alina

Arvo Pärt · Arvo Pärt: Alina

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20

The First Fire

If These Trees Could Talk · Red Forest

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