Le P’tit Bal Perdu / C’était bien

This booklet offers 2 separate scores: a first for solo piano, and a second general one (for any instrument).

It is enriched with a superb afterword by Marc Perrone, a true tribute to the memory of this popular song. Here are its opening lines:

“Will we ever know why and how one song more than another comes to nestle in people’s hearts over time, from generation to generation?

Certainly not; “Le petit bal perdu” has entered the pantheon of songs that will never be forgotten; however much it may have faded a little, it will always, inevitably, be rediscovered. Here is an unobtrusive song, I mean a discreet one, which without making any noise has never had much said about it, whose melody you have to go looking for in order to catch it and memorise its words...”