Table of 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