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Additional authors

1. Dickinson, Peter
2. Finney, Ross Lee, 1906-1997
3. Palmer, G. Molyneux (Geoffrey Molyneux), 1882-1957
4. Ramsey, Gordon, 1926-2006

Description

1. 2.58 linear feet (3 boxes)

Summary

1. The Myra Russel Collection of Musical Settings of James Joyce consists of music scores for songs set to the words of the writer by a variety of contemporary composers, which were amassed by the Joyce scholar, Myra Teicher Russel.

Subject

1. Russel, Myra Teicher, 1920- collector
2. Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Musical settings

Genre/Form

1. Scores.

Call number

1. JPB 06-56

Biography (note)

1. Myra Teicher Russel (1920-2005) was a professor and authority on the works of James Joyce.

Indexes/finding aids (note)

1. Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Author

1. Russel, Myra Teicher, 1920- Collector

Title

1. Myra Russel collection of musical settings of James Joyce, 1909-1993.

Biography

1. Myra Teicher Russel (1920-2005) was a professor and authority on the works of James Joyce. She returned to school later in life, completed her graduate work at Sarah Lawrence College, and taught literature at Elizabeth Seton College (later Iona College) for many years. Her area of interest within Joyce studies was music set to the poems of the author. In the early 1980s, Russel rediscovered the manuscript for Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer's Chamber Music (1909) at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Chamber Music (1907), a volume of thirty-six poems, was Joyce's first published book and it has inspired many composers. Joyce particularly admired Palmer's settings of the poems, which he saw in manuscript through correspondence with the composer. He encouraged Palmer to publish the work, but the score did not appear in print until Russel produced her own edition, Chamber Music: The Lost Song Settings (1993), accompanied by a recording of the songs by the tenor, Robert White (Joyce never heard Palmer's score in performance). An active figure on the conference circuit, Russel often arranged programs that featured music set to the works of Joyce, wrote several scholarly articles, and was a longtime member of the James Joyce Society of New York.

Indexes

1. Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Music & Recorded Sound Division Special Collections material
2. Finding Aid

Occupation

1. College teachers.

Added author

1. Dickinson, Peter.
2. Finney, Ross Lee, 1906-1997.
3. Palmer, G. Molyneux (Geoffrey Molyneux), 1882-1957.
4. Ramsey, Gordon, 1926-2006.

Research call number

1. JPB 06-56