A few musical notes drifting through the air at a party were all it took to enchant the socialite Charles Swann, a central character in Marcel Proust’s French literary masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu.

It was just a “little phrase” from a sonata for piano and violin in F sharp, but it triggered a tumult of emotion for Swann, and prompted a musical puzzle that has intrigued Proust’s fans since the publication of his epic work in 1913.

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Now I have to finally audition the mentioned 'spine-tingling' passages (but only the Emotional-brain could maybe comprehend) ... and it doesn't use words. {sigh}