Full Description
The contributors to this volume investigate several themes about music's relationship to the literary compositions of James Joyce: music as a condition to which Joyce aspired; music theory as a useful way of reading his works; and musical compositions inspired by or connected with him.
Contents
Introduction, Sebastian D. G. Knowles * Bronze: Music; James Joyce and Dublin Opera, 1888-1904, Seamus Reilly * Joyce's Trieste: Citt Musicalissima, John McCourt * Chamber Music : Words and Music Lovingly Coupled, Myra T. Russel * Mr. Bloom and the Cyclops: Joyce and Antheil's Unfinished Op ra M canique, Paul Martin * Opus Posthumous: James Joyce, Gottfried Keller, Othmar Schoeck, and Samuel Barber, Sebastian D. G. Knowles * The Euphonium Cagehaused in Either Notation: John Cage and Finnegans Wake, Scott W. Klein * Davies, Berio, and Ulysses, Murat Eyuboglu * Gold: Text; Noise, Music, Voice, Dubliners, Allan Hepburn * The Distant Music of the Spheres, Thomas Jackson Rice * Bronze by Gold by Bloom: Echo, the Invocatory Drive, and the 'Aurteur' in Sirens, Susan Mooney * Strange Words, Strange Music: The Verbal Music of Sirens, Andreas Fischer * Mining the Ore of Sirens: An Investigation of Structural Components, Margaret Rogers * Circe, La Gioconda , and the Opera House of the Mind, John Gordon * Parsing Persse: The Codology of Hosty's Song, Zack Bowen and Alan Roughley * Synthesizing The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly, Daniel J. Schiff
