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Karol Szymanowski, one of Poland’s most celebrated composers, composed Siedem pieśni do słów Jamesa Joyce’a ( Seven Songs on Words by James Joyce) for voice and piano. An earlier variant is the first four songs only; songs five through seven were completed by Adam Neuer. Stephen Gardner’s Ulysses Extended is performed at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin. The extended score includes opportunityies for improvisation. Composer Michael Hynes’s “ The softest mourning” is based on the closing lines of Finnegans Wake. (see 1997) For works created before 1 January 1978 and published between that date and 31 December 2002, the work will not enter the U.S. public domain before 1 January 2048. Examples include material by Joyce that was first published in the following texts: The James Joyce Archive (after 1977) The Clancy Brothers release a rendition of the traditional Irish ballad Finnegan’s Wake with Tommy Makem on an album of traditional Irish drinking songs. The song becomes a staple for the group. (see 1850-1860, 1962, 1998)

Electronic band Crystal Castles released “ Air War“, which features sampling from Luciano Berio and Cathy Berberian’s adaptation of Ulysses. (see Berio, 1959, 1961; Berio and Berberian, 1942, 1953, 1958) Donna Greenberg composes a song cycle from the poems of Chamber Music entitled “ Love Songs of James Joyce.” Crashing Sunset’s album The Warmth of the Glow included the spoken word poem “ Papers (After James Joyce)“. Mr. Smolin releases an instrumental version of “ The Mookse & The Gripes“, first recorded for the Waywords and Meansigns Opendoor Edition. (see 2016, 2017) Russian poet and translator Anri Volokhonsky collaborated with musicians Leonid Fedorov and Vladimir Volkov on two albums Joyce material. The first album, Joyce, features Anri Volokhonsky reading what he called a Russian “arrangement” (translation) of Finnegans Wake. The second album, Mountains and Rivers, features Volokhonsky’s poems inspired by Joyce; for this album Fedorov and Volkov are joined by Dimitri Ozerski. Fedorov, Volkov, and Ozerski are members of the Russian band Auktyon (АукцЫон) and the album was released on Fedorov’s label, Ulitka Records. (Big thanks to Roman Tsivkin for information on this!)

David Del Tredici wrote his Four Songs on Texts of James Joyce. In a 2002 interview with Tom Voegeli, Del Tredici explained: “I’ve always been a composer dependent on texts. For a number of years I set James Joyce because I was a lapsed Catholic like Joyce. I was drawn to his tortured life, which fit my musical style at the time, which was dissonant and nearly atonal.” (see 1959, 1964, 1965, 1966) Musique concrète pioneer Otto Luening composes his Joyce Cycle, based on Joyce’s poems. Luening was a friend of Joyce in Zurich, where they worked together on Joyce’s theatre company the English Players. The New Millennium Ensemble release their album “ H.C.E – Here Comes Everybody“, borrowing the titled from Finnegans Wake. The album includes a piece by noted Wake reader John Cage. (Cage, see 1942, 1979, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1993, 2001)

Creating an album from texts of Finnegans Wake, Phil Minton releases his Mouthfull of Ecstasy. (see 2017; also Vladimir Estragon, 1989)Luciano Berio sets three poems from Chamber Music to music, to be performed by his wife Cathy Berberian. (see Berio, 1959, 1961; Berio and Berberian, 1942, 1953, 1958; Crystal Castles, 2007) Irish composer Bernadette Marmion writes “ Music Sweet“, a setting of five poems from Joyce’s Chamber Music. Composer James Yannatos releases Symphonies Sacred & Secular: Strings in the Earth and Air, a seeming reference to Joyce’s poem “ Strings in the Earth and Air“. Composer Michael Hynes’s “ 4four” is said to be based on the Mamalujo motif found in Finnegans Wake. (Reference: Moïcani – L’Odéonie blog post.) (see 1996) John Wolf Brennan’s Epithalamium for chamber ensemble is inspired by James joyce’s poems, Chamber Music. (see 1993, 2005)

Composer Stephen Albert’s Distant Hills Coming Nigh includes text from Ulysses, including his previous work “Flower of the Mountain”, an adaptation of Molly Bloom’s soliloquy. (see 1977, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1992) Noise band Eigenstate’s album In Blotch and Void includes the songs “A Way A Lone A Last A Loved A Long” and “His Mouthful Of Ecstasy”.Nicholas Hopkins re-works his 1992 piece “Joyce Transcription I” as “ Double on Joyce Transcription I” for piano with modified tape: “Double on Joyce Transcription I is the sixth in a projected cycle of pieces that act as musical commentaries on James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Each piece in the cycle is based on one of the seventeen chapters of the book, and in each I attempt to transcribe Joyce’s literary operations into musical ones.” The song “ Finnegans Wake” by singer-songwriter Barry Bender uses the book as a metaphor for the confusion that is love. (see 2017) After the Joyce estate denied Mathew Rosenblum permission to use text from Finnegans Wake, Roger Zahab wrote a parody of the Wake for use in Rosenblum’s piece “ Maggies“.

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