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A learning resource incorporating a new musical version of the 36-lyric sequence

This free-access learning resource is hosted by the School of Humanities and Social Science at Liverpool John Moores University, and is inspired by a new version of Chamber Music, a book of poems published by Joyce in 1907.

In 2012 Dr Gerry Smyth recorded an album entitled James Joyce’s ‘Chamber Music’: New ‘Folkish’ Settings of the Thirty-Six Lyrics.

This site provides video commentary on both the poetic and musical aspects of Chamber Music, as well as video performances of all thirty-six of the newly composed versions.

Use these links to access the various materials:

Introduction

Performances

Perspective

Timeline

News and Events

References and Links

Credits

Contact

Introduction

Introduction

Performances

Perspective

Timeline

News and Events

References and Links

Credits

Contact

Contact

A page of 'A Little Cloud' gives me more pleasure than all my verses.

James Joyce:
Until eighteen years old everyone writes poems. After that only two categories of people continue to do so: the poets and the idiots.

Benedetto Croce:
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Walter Pater:
Is it not strange that sheeps’ guts should hale souls out of men’s bodies?

William Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
The lonely return to loneliness; the divine to divinity.

Plotinus: Enneads