Bloom's Old Sweet Song: Essays on Joyce and Music (Florida James Joyce)

170 Pages·1995·1.6 MB·English

by  ZACK BOWEN

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title: Bloom's Old Sweet Song : Essays On Joyce and Music
Florida James Joyce Series
author: Bowen, Zack R.
publisher: University Press of Florida
isbn10 | asin: 0813013275
print isbn13: 9780813013275
ebook isbn13: 9780813019147
language: English
subject Joyce, James,--1882-1941--Knowledge--Music, Music and
literature--History--20th century, Music--Ireland--History-
-20th century, Ireland--In literature.
publication date: 1995
lcc: PR6019.O9Z52615 1995eb
ddc: 823/.912
subject: Joyce, James,--1882-1941--Knowledge--Music, Music and
literature--History--20th century, Music--Ireland--History-
-20th century, Ireland--In literature.
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Bloom's Old Sweet Song
The Florida James Joyce Series

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THE FLORIDA JAMES JOYCE SERIES
Edited by Bernard Benstock
The Autobiographical Novel of Co-Consciousness: Goncharov, Woolf, and Joyce, by Galya Diment (1994).
Shaw and Joyce: "The Last Word in Stolentelling," by Martha Fodaski Black (1995).
Bloom's Old Sweet Song: Essays on Joyce and Music, by Zack Bowen (1995).

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Bloom's Old Sweet Song
Essays on Joyce and Music
Zack Bowen
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA
Gainesville / Tallahassee / Tampa / Boca Raton
Pensacola / Orlando / Miami / Jacksonville

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Copyright 1995 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
All rights reserved
00 99 98 97 96 95 6 5 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bowen, Zack R.
Bloom's old sweet song: essays on Joyce and music/Zack Bowen.
p. c. (Florida James Joyce series)
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8130-1327-5 (alk. paper)
1. Joyce, James, 18821941KnowledgeMusic. 2. Music and literature
History20th century. 3. MusicIrelandHistory20th century.
4. IrelandIn literature. I. Title. II. Series.
PR6019.09Z52615 1995
823'.912dc20 94-27517
Original Publication of Essays
"Libretto for Bloomusalem in Song: The Music of Joyce's Ulysses." In New Light on Joyce From the Dublin
Symposium, edited by Fritz Senn (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1972), 14966.
"The Bronzegold Sirensong: A Critical Analysis of the Sirens Episode in Joyce's Ulysses." As "The Bronzegold
Sirensong: A Critical Analysis of the Music in the Sirens Chapter of Joyce's Ulysses" in Literary Monographs, vol.
1, edited by Eric Rothstein and Thomas Dunseath (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967), 24598.
"The New Bloomusalem: Transformations in Epiphany Land." Modern British Literature 3, no. 1 (Spring 1978):
4855.
"Stephen's Villanelle: Antecedents, Manifestations, and Aftermath." Modern British Literature Monograph Series 2
(1980): 6367.
"Joyce and the Modern Coalescence. "In Light Rays: James Joyce and Modernism, edited by Heyward Ehrlich
(New York: New Horizon Press, 1985), 3955.
"And the Music Goes Round and Round: A Couple of New Approaches to Joyce's Use of Music in Ulysses." In
Coping with Joyce: Essays from the Copenhagen Symposium, edited by Morris Beja and Shari Benstock
(Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1989), 13744.
"Music and Ritual in Ulysses." In Irish Literature and Culture. Irish Literature Studies 35, edited by Michael
Kenneally (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1992), 6371.
"Music as Comedy in Ulysses." In Picking Up Airs: Hearing the Music in Joyce's Text, edited by Ruth Bauerle
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992), 43152.
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For
MARY UPTON BOWEN
and
LINDSEY SALE TUCKER BOWEN

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Contents
Foreword
by Bernard Benstock ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1
Libretto for Bloomusalem in Song: The Music of Joyce's Ulysses 10
2
The Bronzegold Sirensong: A Musical Analysis of the Sirens Episode in Joyce's
Ulysses 25
3
The New Bloomusalem: Transformations in Epiphany Land 77
4
Stephen's Villanelle: Antecedents, Manifestations, and Aftermath 85
5
Joyce and the Modern Coalescence 91
6
And the Music Goes Round and Round: A Couple of New Approaches to Joyce's
Uses of Music in Ulysses 107
7
Music and Ritual in Ulysses 115
8
Music as Comedy in Ulysses 124
Coda 135
Notes 139
Index 147

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Foreword
Zack Bowen and James Joyce and music have fine-tuned a relationship over the years that rivals that of Marion
Bloom and J. C. Doyle and Don Giovanni. Years ago, Bowen recorded whole chapters of Ulysses at a time when
most readers were tone-deaf to the idea that Ulysses was meant to be sung. Uncovering the tunes that reverberated
through Joyce's cerebellum while he was composing the Wake as well as the Portrait, Dubliners as well as Exiles,
had become a pleasurable obsession for Bowen, usually with guitar cradled in his arms or a piano playing
accompaniment, and he translated them into critical conceptsas well as exploited them for entertainment value as
outrageously as Joyce had done. Musical Allusions in the Works of James Joyce, published in 1974, has become a
classic, a standard reference work that makes for delightful readingbut was only one milestone along the way for
Zack Bowen. His articles on Joyce and music have continued to sustain and supplement what he collected in that
volume, and it is those articles (fine-tuned once more, with grace notes added) that are collected here on stage for
the first time. Readers of Bloom's Old Sweet Song are cordially invited to sing along.
BERNARD BENSTOCK

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Acknowledgments
I have already acknowledged elsewhere the enormous debt of gratitude I owe to the many colleagues and research
assistants who have worked on my various projects over the years, and fond memories of their collaborations are
associated with every page. For the present volume I owe special thanks to Mary Donnelly for her diligent
transcription of previous texts, and for her Joycean acumen in detecting long-buried errors.
I have one principal concern after reading over the complete manuscript for this book: that nowhere is the fine
work currently being done by my colleagues in the study of Joyce and music acknowledged. The enormous
advances contributed every year by such colleagues as Ruth Bauerle, Timothy Martin, Michael Gillespie, Kathleen
McGrory, Ulrich Schneider, Henriette Power, Myra Russel, Margaret Rogers, Sebastian Knowles, and many more
have given our little piece of the Joyce puzzle an ever changing and increasingly interesting shape.
References to Dubliners are from the 1967 edition published by Viking. References to Finnegans Wake are from
the 1957 edition published by Viking. References to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man are from the 1968
edition published by Viking. References to Ulysses in chapters 7 and 8 are from Ulysses: The Corrected Text,
edited by Hans Walter Gabler with Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior (New York: Random House, 1986).
Citations refer to episode and line number. References to Ulysses in all other essays are from the 1961 edition
published by Random House.

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