Queering the Pitch The New Gay & Lesbian Musicology

The first collection of gay and lesbian work in musicology. Contributors cover a wide range of subjects from analysis of the work of gay composers to queer readings of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony.'

Queering the pitch : a posy of definitions and impersonations / Wayne Koestenbaum -- Musicality, essentialism, and the closet -- Eros and orientalism in Britten's operas / Philip Brett -- Sapphonics / Elizabeth Wood --On a lesbian relation with music : a serious effort not to think straight / Suzanne G. Cusick -- A conversation with Ned Rorem / Lawrence D. Mass -- Henry Lawes's setting of Katherine Phlilips'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 -- Queer thoughts on country music and k.d. lang / Martha Mockus -- 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.