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STAR WARS Music in James Joyce's BookJohn Williams's Rey's Theme (post-James Joyce Variations)First James Joyce had produced "Finnegans Wake", a cryptic text that drew attention from Joseph Campbell, the author of "The Hero with a Thousand Faces", from which George Lucas then borrowed heavily to draft his "Star Wars" story.
Taking a more direct step from James Joyce to Star Wars:
I seek out sequences of relevant letters in "Finnegans Wake" to turn them into respectively pitched musical notes so that they should echo various themes composed by John Williams for the Star Wars soundtrack. Here for example, six takes on "Rey's Theme" from "The Force Awakens", SW ep. 7.
The source sequences...2016-07-3002 min