Music and Proust

Introduction

I’ve always been interested in the relationship between music and fiction. Recently I have explored this through a project writing music that was somehow ‘to do with’ the music in Marcel Proust’s À La Recherche du Temps ...

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I. Music and Fiction

Music has, of course, put stories on stage in opera for more than 400 years, and some of the first composers – Machaut, Hildegard – were as much poets as musicians in their own lifetimes. Another path, though, is to expl...

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II. Music in À La Recherche du Temps Perdu

Amongst many other things, A La Recherche is a book about art: it is populated by artists and artworks, proposes theories of art, and – my entry for the Monty Python ‘All-England Proust Summarizer’s Competition’ - offers...

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III. Composing with Proust - The Pieces

Separate videos and scores of the pieces are in the section further down the page. Underlined times/texts are links, either to other websites, the recording of my piece, or some other music. These all go directly to the ...

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IV. Proust Made Me Do It

The Proustian project is one which sits naturally with both self-reflection and neurosis (the picture above is from one of his sketchbooks if you want to see what Proustian neurosis really looks like). Here, as the very ...

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Acknowledgements and Links

As well as a lot of time composing and reading on my own, one of the joys of this project was the collaboration and discussion it involved as well, and while I've tried to mention many of the people I've talked with abou...

Proust's couch, coat and cane, from the Musée Carnavalet in Paris.

Music And Proust

Categories

Introduction

I. Music and Fiction

II. Music in À La Recherche du Temps Perdu

III. Composing with Proust - The Pieces

IV. Proust Made Me Do It

Acknowledgements and Links

MiSREMemBERANCES

The SEPTET

The SCORES - Click ON IMAGES for DOWNLOADS

Misremembrances

Septet for 11 Instruments

Proust's couch, coat and cane, from the Musée Carnavalet in Paris.

Music And Proust

Categories

Introduction

I. Music and Fiction

II. Music in À La Recherche du Temps Perdu

III. Composing with Proust - The Pieces

IV. Proust Made Me Do It

Acknowledgements and Links

MiSREMemBERANCES

The SEPTET

The SCORES - Click ON IMAGES for DOWNLOADS

Misremembrances

Septet for 11 Instruments

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