While interviewing Alma at her piano, Pelley draws from a hat four cards with musical notes on them: B, A, E flat, G. She announces the four notes' solfège names and considers them silently.

The Do-Re-Mi system (also known as solfège) was invented by Guido D’Arezzo around 1000 AD, and it basically assigns syllables to notes.Following his innovation, musicians over the next few hundred ...

The simple yet beguiling melody haunts from start to finish, inviting us into an intimate world where every note matters. Given the hundreds of not just nocturnes but polkas, mazurkas, waltzes, ...