"The essays to which this reader will most likely return to are those by McCourt and Reilly, each of which deepens our knowledge of the culture out of which Joyce's work grew: Hepburn, whose political and psychological perspective to the study of Joyce and music: and Martin, who offers a definitive account of an important episode in Joyce's musical life." -- The Comparist"What distinguishes D.G. Knowles's collection...is its interdiciplinary character..." -- English Literature in Transition

• Introduction, Sebastian D. G. Knowles * Bronze: Music; James Joyce and Dublin Opera, 1888-1904, Seamus Reilly * Joyce's Trieste: Citt Musicalissima, John McCourt * Chamber Music : Words and Music Lovingly Coupled, Myra T. Russel * Mr. Bloom and the Cyclops: Joyce and Antheil's Unfinished Op ra M canique, Paul Martin * Opus Posthumous: James Joyce, Gottfried Keller, Othmar Schoeck, and Samuel Barber, Sebastian D. G. Knowles * The Euphonium Cagehaused in Either Notation: John Cage and Finnegans Wake, Scott W. Klein * Davies, Berio, and Ulysses, Murat Eyuboglu * Gold: Text; Noise, Music, Voice, Dubliners, Allan Hepburn * The Distant Music of the Spheres, Thomas Jackson Rice * Bronze by Gold by Bloom: Echo, the Invocatory Drive, and the 'Aurteur' in Sirens, Susan Mooney * Strange Words, Strange Music: The Verbal Music of Sirens, Andreas Fischer * Mining the Ore of Sirens: An Investigation of Structural Components, Margaret Rogers * Circe, La Gioconda , and the Opera House of the Mind, John Gordon * Parsing Persse: The Codology of Hosty's Song, Zack Bowen and Alan Roughley * Synthesizing The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly, Daniel J. Schiff