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1 online resource (xi, 406 pages) : illustrations, music |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
When the first edition of Queering the Pitch was 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 |
| Analysis |
Homosexuality Related to Music |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 10, 2018) |
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Homosexuality and music.
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Sex in music.
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Gay musicians.
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Gender identity in music.
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Lesbian musicians.
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MUSIC -- Reference.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
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Lesbian musicians
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Gay musicians
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Gender identity in music
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Homosexuality and music
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Sex in music
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Musik
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Homosexualität
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Geschlechtsidentität
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Muziekpsychologie.
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Muzieksociologie.
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Vrouwen.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Interviews
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Brett, Philip, editor.
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Wood, Elizabeth, 1939- editor.
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Thomas, Gary C., 1944- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780203943120 |
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0203943120 |
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9781135863814 |
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1135863814 |
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9781135863791 |
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1135863792 |
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9781135863821 |
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1135863822 |
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9780203944189 |
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0203944186 |
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1280809604 |
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9781280809606 |
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9781135863777 |
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1135863776 |
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