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Queering the pitch : the new gay and lesbian musicology
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- Creator
- edited by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, Gary C. Thomas
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Second edition
- New York : Routledge, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- xi, 406 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780415978835, 0415978831, 9780415978842, 041597884X
- OCLC
- ocm65301898
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Queering the pitch : a posy of definitions and impersonations / Wayne Koestenbaum -- Canons and arias. Musicality, essentialism, and the closet / Philip Brett ; Sapphonics / Elizabeth Wood ; On a lesbian relationship with music : a serious effort not to think straight / Suzanne G. Cusick ; A conversation with Ned Rorem / Lawrence D. Mass -- Chronicles. Henry Lawes's setting of Katherine Philips's friendship poetry in his Second book of ayres and dialogues, 1655 : a musical misreading? / Lydia Hamessley ; Unveiled voices : sexual difference and the castrato / Joke Dame ; "Was George Frideric Handel Gay?" : on closet questions and cultural politics / Gary C. Thomas ; Constructions of subjectivity in Schubert's music / Susan McClary ; Eros and orientalism in Britten's operas / Philip Brett ; Queer thoughts on country music and k.d. lang / Martha Mockus -- Consorts. Lesbian compositional process : one lover-composer's perspective / Jennifer Rycenga ; Growing up female(s) : retrospective thoughts on musical preferences and meanings / Karen Pegley and Virginia Caputo ; Authority and freedom : toward a sociology of the gay choruses / Paul Attinello -- Coda. Preface to "Lesbian and gay music" / Elizabeth Wood ; Lesbian and gay music / Philip Brett and Elizabeth Wood