Music and literature: a score made of words. But what is this strange alchemy that occurs between a melody and a text? How do notes and words manage to dance together? The idea of this article is to study the influence of the music in literary works, to analyze the music notion as a creative element of meaning, as a dramatic speech within a literary text and a powerful vehicle for feelings. Reading the works of the Peruvian writer Alfredo Bryce Echenique, is to meet the music behind the words, and in the developed topics.