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1. Meet the Academic Quality and Standards Team

   Meet the Quality and Standards team.

2. Welcome to James Joyce's "Chamber Music"

   This is a free-access learning resource that 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. These pages provide 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.

3. James Joyce's "Chamber Music"

   A timeline of events relating to James Joyce's 'Chamber Music', first published in London in 1907.

4. James Joyce's "Chamber Music"

   Video performances, plus commentaries, lyrics, notes and musical notation, for all 36 songs from Dr Gerry Smyth's musical adaptation of James Joyce's 'Chamber Music'.

5. James Joyce's "Chamber Music"

   Two scholarly essays by Dr Gerry Smyth relating to his setting of all 36 lyrics from James Joyce's 'Chamber Music'; this page also includes a list of 'Aphorisms and Quotations', offering reflections on different aspects of Joyce's original lyric sequence.

6. James Joyce's "Chamber Music" 

   Background and Description for James Joyce's 'Chamber Music', Dr Gerry Smyth's online learning resource based on Joyce's 36-lyric song sequence.

7. James Joyce's "Chamber Music"

   Video performances, plus commentaries, lyrics, notes and musical notation, for performances 13-16 from Dr Gerry Smyth's musical adaptation of James Joyce's 'Chamber Music'.

8. James Joyce's "Chamber Music"

   Video performances, plus commentaries, lyrics, notes and musical notation, for performances 21-24 from Dr Gerry Smyth's musical adaptation of James Joyce's 'Chamber Music'.

9. James Joyce's "Chamber Music"

   Video performances, plus commentaries, lyrics, notes and musical notation, for performances 5-8 from Dr Gerry Smyth's musical adaptation of James Joyce's 'Chamber Music'.

10. James Joyce's "Chamber Music"

    Video performances, plus commentaries, lyrics, notes and musical notation, for performances 33-36 from Dr Gerry Smyth's musical adaptation of James Joyce's 'Chamber Music'.