8:1 Modern Fiction
Brooks Landon

Music in Ulysses

Complete Song List

Music in Sirens (Chapter 11)

 

Ulysses: The Soundtrack

Love's Old Sweet Song

4.314, 5. 157-61, 11.681, 13.667, 15.455, 15, 1720, 15. 2506, 17.
1307, 18.598, 18.874-77, 18.896

Those Lovely Seaside Girls

4.282, 4.409, 4.437, 4.442, 6.784,8.1066, 11.687, 11.939, 11.941,
11.977, 11.1077, 13.906, 13.942, 14.1107, 15.3168, 15.4092

Some Functions of Music in Sirens:

  1. Fugue as structure/structure as theme

    2. The theme of the Sirens
    Love and war (betrayal)
    Consubstantiality

  2. Sound v sight

    3. Page 231/ Line 964:"There's music everywhere"
    Page 228/Line 830   Numbers it is. All music when you come to think.
    Two multiplied by two divided by half is twice one. Vibrations: chords those are.

  3. Music identifies and links characters

  1. Music upplies narrative pace

  1. Songs as foreshadowing: music and the road to equanimity

  1. Specific Songs:

"Tutto e sciolto" ("All is Lost")

11.22, 11.629, 11.638, 11.1242, 14.1133, 15.1527, 15.2635

Aria from the opera La Sonnambula (Bellini). Feeling of love betrayed.

224/629, 224/641."Father" Cowley plays this briefly on the piano in Sirens, occasioning comments that it's"the most beautiful tenor air ever written"

The heroine innocently sleepwalks her way into a situation that makes her appear faithless to her fiancee. His lament is"All is lost now,/By all hope and joy/I am forsaken./Nevermore can love awaken;/Past enchantment, no nevermore."

"La ci darem"

Duet from Mozart's Don Giovanni. Duet Boylan has picked for Molly to sing (the other song we know she'll sing is"Love's Old Sweet Song")

"M'appari"

Simon Dedalus sings this in Sirens.

223/584-587, 225/663-754

When first I saw that form endearing;/Sorrow from me seem'd to depart:/Each graceful look, each word so cheering/Charmed my eye and won my heart. . . .But alas! 'twas idle dreaming,/And the dream too soon hath flown;/Not one ray of hope is gleaming;/I am lost, yes I am lost for she is gone. . . .Martha, Martha, I am sighing;/I am weeping still; for thee;/Come thou lost one,/Come thou dear one,/Thou alone can'st comfort me. . . .

The Shade of the Palm

11.9, 11.226, 11.379, 11.518, 11.734, 11.1132, 15.297

"In Old Madrid" (male)   "In Old Madrid" (female)

226/733 16.1432,18.617, 18.736, 18.1335, 18.1338, 18.1595

"The Croppy Boy"

Ben Dollard sings this in Sirens. Bloom thinks about it 233/1016-1020
235/1113 Bloom runs the"Croppy Boy" and"All is Lost" together:
All lost in pity for croppy

Music in Cyclops (Chapter 12)

A Nation Once Again

12.891, 12.916-17

The Wearing of the Green (The Wearing of the Green)

3.259, 15.4587, 16.1096

The Boys of Wexford

7.427, 8.437, 11.1063, 15.623, 15.630

Music in Circe (Chapter 15)

My Girl's A Yorkshire Girl

10.1241, 15.4002, 15.4027, 15.4052, 15.4074, 15.4130, 15.4142, 15.4676

The Shade of the Palm

15.297-302

The Jewel of Asia

6.355, 15.3861

The Memory of the Past

13.438, 15.902, 15.2489, 18.775

The Holy City

15.2115, 15.2171, 15.2209, 15.2211