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Article: Bronze by Gold: The Music of Joyce.(Review)
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Bronze by Gold: The Music of Joyce. Edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles. (Border Crossings, 3.) New York: Garland Publishing, 1999. [xxvi, 343 p. ISBN 0-8153-2863-X. $75.]
The study of James Joyce and music is naturally a matter of Joyce's antecedents and his consequences. Joyce's musical interests were many, and his highly allusive style has laid his influences open to investigation. On the other hand, his status as an icon of literary modernism, as well as the perceived "musicality" of his writing, have made him an attractive figure to composers as different as Samuel Barber and John Cage. The irony is that although Joyce's work exemplified, for other artists, ...