Queering the Pitch (Paperback)

1. Queering the Pitch: A Posy of Definitions and Impersonations Part 1: Canons and Arias 2. Musicality, Essentialism, and the Closet 3. Sapphonics4. On a Lesbian Relation with Music: A Serious Effort Not to Think Straight5. A Conversation with Ned RoremPart 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 Perspective13. Growing up Female(s): Retrospective Thoughts on Musical Preferences and Meanings14. Authority and Freedom: Toward a Sociology of the Gay Choruses Part4: Coda Preface 15. Lesbian and Gay Music