Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gender and other dualities of music history -- Difference and power in music -- Loving it : music and criticism in Roland Barthes -- Charle s Ives and gender ideology -- Ethnomusicologist as midwife -- Women as musicians : a question of class -- Miriam sings her song -- Lesbian fug ue -- Reading as an opera queen -- Schwarze Gredel and the engendered m inor mode in Mozart's operas -- Opera -- Britten's dream -- Of women, m usic, and power : a model from Seicento Florence -- Carnaval, cross-dre ssing, and the woman in the mirror -- Narrative agendas in "absolute" m usic : identity and difference in Brahms's Third Symphony.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2009. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of a ccess: Intranet.