It was composed by Michel Legrand, the lyrics were written by Alan and Marilyn Bergman.
Billboard magazine wrote that it was the "most widely recorded" of that years nominees for Best Original Song.
[2] Judith Crist writing in New York magazine in 1970, described the song as being featured on the soundtrack of the film over a "magnified-snowflake blurred-focus winter-wonderland scene of lovers cavorting in the snow" and that the song was one of a number of "schmaltz score[s]" by Legrand.
[2] Johnny Mathis's recording of "Pieces of Dreams" reached the Billboard Top 40 Easy Listening chart in October 1970.
[10] Stanley Turrentine recorded several instrumental versions of the song; it was the title track of his 1971 album Pieces of Dreams.