Queering the pitch : the new gay and lesbian musicology / edited by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, Gary C. Thomas

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.

Contains an essay on Gay Musicology, its history and scope. Along with this historical essay, this work includes an introduction that outlines the changes that have occurred as Gay Musicology has grown.