Most Beautiful Music (short story)

Most Beautiful Music was a short story printed in Doctor Who The Official Annual 2009. It featured the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble. It was written by Justin Richards.

Summary
The Tenth Doctor and Donna attend the Concert of the Most Beautiful Music at the Church of the High Exalted on Cantabulous Nine, in its 320th year.

Characters

 * Tenth Doctor
 * Donna Noble
 * Child of Music
 * Monks
 * Creature

Worldbuilding

 * When the Doctor and Donna are thrown out of the church by a monk, Donna says it reminds her of Ginny's wedding.

Music

 * Sylvia Noble always told Donna the most beautiful music in the universe was The Beatles.
 * The Concert of the Most Beautiful Music is only performed once ten every years, and is the most famous cultural event this side of the Literary Olympics of Splatt Minor.
 * The Child of Music plays the lassimater.

Culture

 * Donna compares the need for the creature in the lassimater to keep the Child of Music alive for so long to Puff the Magic Dragon.

Species

 * Also attending the concert are men, women, dog people and giant crustaceans, as well as other aliens.

Technology

 * The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to break back into the church, and then to free the creature from the lassimater.

Foods and beverages

 * Donna gets some mindorolan and janissary ice cream, which neither she nor the Doctor feel like finishing.

Continuity
to be added