Bloom learns that the song will be included in the concert tour early in the morning, and it serves throughout his day and the novel Ulysses both as a leitmotif of Molly's adultery and as the theme song of her potential reconciliation with Bloom. Molly Bloom will be singing this song on her concert tour with Blazes Boylan and, indeed, the afternoon liaison between her and Blazes is ostensibly for the purpose of rehearsing the music for that concert, including this song.
This is one of the most frequently referred to and significant musical allusions throughout Ulysses. It figures much more prominently in the Dubliners short story, "Two Gallants." There is a glancing reference to this Thomas Moore melody in the Scylla and Charybdis episode of Ulysses.
We come to know the characters in the book by their actions, words, thoughts, and memories but it can be well argued that we come to understand them by their individual tastes in music and the melodies that flit through their minds in the course of the day.Ī number of the songs mentioned or alluded to in the book have been recorded on the recently released CD, MORE Music from the Works of James Joyce, including:īelow is a sampling of additional song titles used by Joyce in Ulysses - and performed on Sunphone Records' first CD release - along with commentary on their importance to the action of the story: The numerous musical references scattered throughout Joyce's masterpiece play a strong central role in advancing the narrative and enhance both the effectiveness and the expressiveness of the stream-of-consciousness technique employed in the book.
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