The Sound of "Sirens": Joyce's Fuga Per Canonem and Absolute Music

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The Sound of "Sirens": Joyce's Fuga Per Canonem and Absolute Music

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ID	2278370
Author(s)	Witen, Michelle
Author(s) at UniBasel	Witen, Michelle
Year	2012
Title	The Sound of "Sirens": Joyce's Fuga Per Canonem and Absolute Music
Journal	Variations
Volume	20
Number	Spring 2012
Pages / Article-Number	157-169
Abstract	Beginning with an historical analysis of the fugue and its place in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century musicology, this article examines James Joyce’s claims of having written the “Sirens” episode of Ulysses as a fuga per canonem . Keeping in mind that the fugue was considered to be the highest form of absolute music at the time that Joyce was writing “Sirens,” this article establishes that Joyce’s implementation of the fugue is in keeping with the spirit of absolute music in that structure and effect are granted equal importance.
Publisher	Peter Lang
ISSN/ISBN	1424-7631 ; 2235-6118
edoc-URL	http://edoc.unibas.ch/49713/
Full Text on edoc	Available
Digital Object Identifier DOI	10.3726/85613_157

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