Film adaptation Swan both listen to Debussy's "Clair de lune" and Edward composes the piece "Bella's Lullaby" for Bella. While "Clair de lune" was a pre-existing piece of music, "Bella's Lullaby" was not and required original music to be composed for the 2008 movie adaptation. In the 2016 sci-fi film "" adapted from the story by Kurt Vonnegut, the film-makers decided to abandon Vonnegut's choice of music. They stated that they felt that it worked in his prose only because it was not actually heard. Filmmakers' test screenings found that Vonnegut's style of music confused audiences and detracted from narrative comprehension. The
Clair de lune (Fauré) 1888, at the instigation of the Princesse de Polignac, he made a version for voice and orchestra, first performed at the Société Nationale de Musique in April of that year, with the tenor Maurice Bàges as soloist. In its orchestral form the song was included in Fauré's incidental music "Masques et bergamasques" in 1919. The original published version (Hamelle, Paris, 1888) is in B-flat minor. The song is dedicated to Fauré's friend the painter Emmanuel Jadin, who was a talented amateur pianist. Clair de lune (Fauré) "Clair de lune", ("Moonlight") Op. 46 No 2, is a song by Gabriel Fauré,