Queering the Pitch
- Editor: Brett, Phillip
- Editor: Thomas, Gary C.
- Editor: Wood, Elizabeth
Queering the Pitch
- Editor: Brett, Phillip
- Editor: Thomas, Gary C.
- Editor: Wood, Elizabeth
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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. In light of the explosion of Gay Musicology since 1994, a new edition of Queering the Pitch is timely and needed. In this new work, the editors are including a landmark essay by Philip Brett on Gay Musicology, its history and scope. The essay itself has become a cause celebre, and this will be its first full appearance in print. Along with this new historical essay, the editors are contributing a new introduction that outlines the changes that have occurred over the last decade as Gay Musicology has grown.
Contents
- 1. Queering the Pitch: A Posy of Definitions and Impersonations
- Part 1 : Canons and Arias
- 2. Musicality, Essentialism, and the Closet
- 3. Sapphonics
- 4. On a Lesbian Relation with Music: A Serious Effort Not to Think Straight
- 5. A Conversation with Ned Rorem
- Part 2 : Chronicles
- 6. Henry Lawes's Setting of Katherine Philips's Friendship Poetry in His Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues, 1655: A Musical Misreading?
- 7. Unveiled Voices: Sexual Difference and the Castrato Joke Dame
- 8. "Was George Frideric Handel Gay?": On Closet Questions and Cultural Politics
- 9. Constructions of Subjectivity in Schubert's Music 10: Eros and Orientalism in Britten's Operas
- 11. Queer Thoughts on Country Music and k.d. lang
- Part 3 : Consorts
- 12. Lesbian Compositional Process: One Lover-Composer's Perspective
- 13. Growing up Female(s): Retrospective Thoughts on Musical Preferences and Meanings
- 14. Authority and Freedom: Toward a Sociology of the Gay Choruses
- Part 4 : Coda
- Preface
- 15. Lesbian and Gay Music
