http://transitofvenusproject.com/
Transit of Venus is self-described as "Some kind of Glam Indie Pop Rock thing."  Download the free Morning Star soundtrack to the transit of Venus trailer (to be released mid-January 2012).  Also in production (as of August 2010) is new album that features LeGentil and fictional account of his wife.  Several songs and video available for free download, with more for sale.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/venus/venus-home.html
Music and literature, with emphasis on John Philip Sousa.  The Library of Congress section 'Browse Materials' has three links to

1. Score/parts, audio, sheet music.  Contains sound recording performed by the Virginia Grand Military band in 2003 with Loris Schissel conducting; Transit of Venus March 1883 notated music with original 1883 scoring and instruments; and and Transit of Venus March notated music, an updated arrangement of Sousa's original 1883 score so that this march could be played on modern instruments. This score is a 12-page scoring in 23 parts and is available as a PDF file directly at the following URL http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/ihas/service/transit/100010996/100010996.pdf. Thanks go to the IMAGE satellite E&PO program and to Mr. Loris Schissel and Susan Clermont at the Performing Arts Reading Room. 
   
2. Essay by Dr. Sten Odenwald about the significance of the transit of Venus.
3. Related materials, including 12 additional transit-related music resources.
   
   

The original music page from 2004 Sun-Earth Day is at http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2012/transit/sousa.php.


http://youtu.be/-rNQFUqt49Q
Penn High School Orchestra performs John Philip Sousa's Transit of Venus March in 2004.

/education/the-arts/149-song-mackey
Song by New Zealand folksinger Willow Mackey, which she composed for 1969 bicentennial of James Cooks voyage.  From Guy Ottewell.  Musician Matt Rumley records Ballad of James Cook, from the words and music of Willow Mackey.  Art Gorman and Jeff Tuholski also perform Young James Cook.


http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/venus/venus-othermusic.html
Collection of other 18th and 19th century music related to the transit of Venus.  From Library of Congress, Music Division.


http://www.transitvenus.com/
Two New York musicians release 2008 album for free download under the band name Transit Venus.

http://analyzer.depaul.edu/paperplate/transit.htm
The soundtrack to the Transit of Venus Program is available through the Great Lakes Planetarium Association (GLPA).  You can also view links to the audio CD contents and an order form. Loras Schissel and the Virginia Grand Military Band generously gave permission for their recording of Sousa's Transit of Venus March to be included in the Transit of Venus Program that was compiled as part of a Toyota TAPESTRY grant for educators.  

http://www.astrocappella.com/activities
Meet the Neighbors: Planets Around Nearby Stars is an AstroCappella lesson plan to accompany their song Dance of the Planets.  High school students investigate the dimming caused by a transit; determine a planet's radius and orbital distance from transit data; and compare results of the extrasolar planetary system with our solar system; ( PDF file).

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/singing/singing.html
The Singing Sun. Recordings of acoustical pressure waves (much like a bell) in the sun by SOHO spacecraft yield information about how the structure of the sun's interior shapes its surface.

http://www.reverbnation.com/kiddscosmicvibrations
Sounds of the sun from the SOHO/Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) Consortium are converted into audible electronic songs, such as Tsehai (The Sun). 

http://www.noao.edu/education/ighelio/solar_music.html
Lesson plan on Solar Music- Helioseismology encourages students to listen to the Sun's heartbeat to learn about the inside of the Sun.

http://www.archive.org/stream/transitvenus00sousgoog/transitvenus00sousgoog_djvu.txt
Complete text of John Philip Sousa's 1920 novel, The Transit of Venus.  From Internet Archive.

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/sunearthday/2004/vtbackmusic.htm
The (former) NASA Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum includes the piano score for Sousa's Transit of Venus March.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3291192/Young%20James%20Cook.aiff
Young James Cook, ballad written by Willow Mackey in 1969 to honor the bicentennial of Cook's 1769 voyage; performed by Art Gorman and Jeff Tuholski; notated by Guy Ottewell; transposed and arranged by Art Gorman, 2004. 

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Once Around the Sun by Joby Talbot includes song entitled "June: Transit of Venus."

The Bovaco Catalog carries John Philip Sousa's Transit of Venus March band arrangement.  The march costs $25.00 (plus UPS shipping) for a reprint of each published part on 8.5 x 11-inch pages.  You may reproduce as many copies for your own use as necessary.  You may call them at (480) 948-9870 or write them at The Detroit Concert Band, Inc., 
7443 East Butherus, Suite 100, Scottsdale, AZ 85260.

http://www.jwpepper.com/6385611.item
JW Pepper sells the band set and score for Sousa's Transit of Venus March.

http://johnwesleybarker.madasafish.com/compositions/transitofvenus.html
Transit of Venus for Flutes includes a solo study, a flute duet, and a concerto version, which commemorate the transit of Venus while noting the presence of flutes in the South Pacific as recorded by James Cook's expedition; from John Wesley Barker.  Image from http://transitofvenus.auckland.ac.nz/explorations/imggal/cooks_pg_arttahiti9.html.

http://www.dws.org/sousa/mid/transit.mid 
John Philip Sousa's Transit of Venus March; (MIDI file).

http://vimeo.com/16329342
Video: The SVCC Concert Band performs John Phillip Sousa's Transit of Venus March; conducted by Mark Bressler.

http://vimeo.com/11852682
Dave Keegan & Simon Snaize perform the song "Venus In Transit" from their album Portmanteau.

http://www.transitofvenusmusic.com/
Transit of Venus states it is a Philadelphia-based record label with national distribution by Redeye.

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/135190-tully-live-at-sydney-town-hall-1969-70/
From the Australian band Tully "comes this pair of live recordings from 1969 and 1970 at the Sydney Town Hall, both of which are rare captures of the original incarnation of Tully on stage, including a performance of the continent’s very first rock opera, “Love 200”, which documents an expedition to map the Transit of Venus in 1769."

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SENL/SENL200407B.pdf
Transit of Venus Song for One Guitar and Four Virtual Guitars; from Clark University's (Worcester, MA) Matt Malsky.

http://soundcloud.com/shadowattack/sets/the-transit-of-venus
Transit of Venus Album and Title Track; from Deepblip Records.

http://www.4shared.com/audio/AspcuNnZ/On_The_Transit_Of_Venus.html
Music: On the Transit of Venus, by Magda Said.