Under Guido d'Arezzo's Gadeway

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  • Guido D'Arezzo: medieval music theorist, the developer of staff notation in music and of tonic solfa → the seventh in a list of seven scholars representing the Seven Liberal Arts of medieval scholarship
  • gateway
  • gade: (Danish) street
  • Niels Gade: Danish composer, continuing the musical allusions of this phrase
  • through S. Catechista's gate: Joyce's First-Draft version of this phrase
  • catechista: (Latin, Italian) catechist, one who practices catechesis, i.e. one who catechizes catechumens; a teacher who instructs students in the doctrines of a particular Christian denomination, typically in preparation for confirmation
  • under Saint Cecilia's Archeway: Joyce's Second-Draft version of this phrase
  • Saint Cecilia: the patron saint of music, continuing the musical allusions of this phrase
  • archway
  • arche (ἀρχή): (Greek) beginning, origin, first cause; power, sovereignty, domination
  • arche: (French) (1) arch (2) ark, Noah's ark
  • arche: (Italian) arks