ABSTRACT
Is Proust writing about spiritual music here? He does not name it as such, but it is very well possible to recognize in this quote something that might be considered a spiritual origin of music. This music seems, in the narration of Proust, to be otherworldly or at least coming from an other world.1 The important difference
1 Considering (certain) music as a gift from a transcendent world, is a well-known belief that appears throughout the history of ideas regarding music’s origin. I confine myself to three rudimentary examples here.
