Queering the Pitch The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology

Name: Queering the Pitch The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology
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ISBN: 9780415978842

ISBN-10: 041597884X

ISBN-13: 9780415978842

Edition: 2nd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, Gary C. Thomas

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When the first edition ofQueering the Pitchwas published in early 1994, it was immediately hailed as a landmark and defining work in the new field of Gay Musicology. The first collection of its kind, its contributors covered a wide range of subjects from analysis of the work of gay composers to queer readings of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony. Among the contributors were many then-new scholars,--including the late Philip Brett (one of the editors of the first edition), Susan McClary, Jennifer Rycenga, Paul Attinello, and Martha Mockus--who have since become leaders in the field. In light of the explosion of Gay Musicology since 1994, a new edition ofQueering the Pitchis timely and needed.…

Book details

List price: $52.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Preface to the Second Edition


Preface to the First Edition



Queering the Pitch: A Posy of Definitions and Impersonations




Canons and Arias



Musicality, Essentialism, and the Closet




Sapphonics




On a Lesbian Relationship with Music: A Serious Effort Not to Think Straight




A Conversation with Ned Rorem




Chronicles



Henry Lawes's Setting of Katherine Philips's Friendship Poetry in His Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues, 1655: A Musical Misreading?




Unveiled Voices: Sexual Difference and the Castrato




"Was George Frideric Handel Gay?": On Closet Questions and Cultural Politics




Constructions of Subjectivity in Schubert's Music




Eros and Orientalism in Britten's Operas




Queer Thoughts on Country Music and k.d. lang




Consorts



Lesbian Compositional Process: One Lover-Composer's Perspective




Growing Up Female(s): Retrospective Thoughts on Musical Preferences and Meanings




Authority and Freedom: Toward a Sociology of the Gay Choruses




Coda


Preface to "Lesbian and Gay Music"




Lesbian and Gay Music



Index


Contributors