This is a dream I had a couple of nights ago. I have not embellished or improved the narrative at all.
Essentially, at some point the third room in the house of
Melvyn went on to ask about why 'Cycle of eight pieces' only had seven pieces. She replied that it was partly a joke as there were originally eight pieces, but she lost one but kept the name. The eighth piece had just, some years later, been found under
The viewpoint in the dream switched (I think) between me being me watching the documentary, me being me outside the house watching the rigmarole of the filming, me being Melvyn Bragg [not something that has happened to me in a dream before] and the usual sort of dream-like floating in mid-air.
Obviously it doesn't completely make sense - surely one would be able to recreate a piece of music one had lost - but I think that my subconscious's eye for the grammar of TV is pretty good. The 'bigging up' (as my 16 year old niece would say) of the discussions people have / had, the slightly pointless filming in a place where the featured person had lived when they had written something significant, the semi-sensational stuff (this bit of music was lost but has been found again) and then this segueing into a performance of it, all seem to my conscious mind as well as my subconscious exactly how this would be done.
Although the conditions were probably right for remembering a dream (went to bed late a couple of nights running, was reading a technical book in bed) I don't know where this comes from, although a daughter of a friend was profiled on the South Bank Show, and I do have some CDs of what one might call avant-garde music (most of which I don't particularly like).