Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity

Sophie Fuller teaches at Trinity College of Music in London, England, and is the author of The Pandora Guide to Women Composers: Britain and the U.S., 1629-Present.Lloyd Whitesell, an associate professor of music at McGill University, is the author of The Music of Joni Mitchell.

• Acknowledgments   ixIntroduction: Secret Passages   1Sophie Fuller and Lloyd WhitesellPART 1: PRIVATE PERFORMANCE1. "Desire Is Consuming Me": The Life Partnership between Eugenie Schumann and Marie Fillunger   25Eva Rieger2. Ravel's Way   49Lloyd Whitesell3. "Devoted Attention": Looking for Lesbian Musicians in Fin-de-Siecle Britain   79Sophie FullerPART 2: PUBLIC APPEARANCES4. "He Isn't a Marrying Man": Gender and Sexuality in the Repertoire of Male Impersonators, 1870-1930   105Gillian Rodger5. Tchaikovsky and His Music in Anglo-American Criticism, 1890s-1950s   134Malcolm Hamrick Brown6. Transcription, Transgression, and the (Pro)creative Urge   150Ivan Raykoff7. Musicology and Sexuality: The Example of Edward J. Dent   177Philip BrettPART 3: DOUBLE MEANINGS8. Cross-Dressing in Saint-Saens's Le Rouet d'Omphale: Ambiguities of Gender and Politics   191Jann Pasler9. The "Dark Saying" of the Enigma: Homoeroticism and the Elgarian Paradox   216Byron Adams10. "An Anthology of Friendship": The Letters from John Ireland to Father Kenneth Thompson   245Fiona RichardsPART 4: QUEER LISTENING11. Tristan's Wounds: On Homosexual Wagnerians at the Fin de Siecle   271Mitchell Morris12. When Subjects Don't Come Out   293Sherrie TuckerContributors   311Index   315

Philip Brett Award by the Gay & Lesbian Study Group of the American Musicological Society, 2002"Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity is a beautifully edited collection of essays devoted to the intersections of music and queerness in Europe and the United States from 1870 to 1950. . . . A stellar contribution to queer music scholarship [and] an essential text for those interested in the modernist period."--Journal of the American Musicological Society "Anyone interested in music, sexuality, or both undoubtedly will find something new or intriguing in this book and, in the process, will find incontrovertible evidence that the two worlds of sexuality and music were and are intimately connected."--Journal of the History of Sexuality "This superb collection of twelve essays offers much new research and makes a fine addition to queer musicology. . . . Many of the contributors explore subject matter previously overlooked, veiled, or suppressed, presenting significant new research that draws on primary documents. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice "A substantial contribution to the developing field of queer studies in musicology. . . . Will become required reading in the field very quickly. . . . A rich source of information about composers and other musicians that we have not had readily available before."--Ruth Solie, editor of Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship