Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. Acknowledgments XI
4. Introduction: On "Difference" 1
5. Systems of Difference
6. Gender and Other Dualities of Music History 23
7. Difference and Power in Music 46
8. Loving It: Music and Criticism in Roland Barthes 66
9. Cultural Contexts of Difference
10. Charles Ives and Gender Ideology 83
11. The Ethnomusicologist as Midwife 107
12. Women as Musicians: A Question of Class 125
13. Interpretive Strategies
14. Miriam Sings Her Song: The Self and the Other in Anthropological Discourse 149
15. Lesbian Fugue: Ethel Smyth's Contrapuntal Arts 164
16. Reading as an Opera Queen 184
17. Schwarze Gredel and the Engendered Minor Mode in Mozart's Operas 201
18. Critical Readings
19. Opera; or, the Envoicing of Women 225
20. Britten's Dream 259
21. Of Women, Music, and Power: A Model from Seicento Florence 281
22. Carnaval, Cross-Dressing, and the Woman in the Mirror 305
23. Narrative Agendas in "Absolute" Music: Identity and Difference in Brahms's Third Symphony 326
24. Contributors 345
25. Index 349