About the Book:Exploring the relationship between queer sexuality and music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuryQueer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity approaches modern sexuality by way of music. Through the hidden or lost stories of composers, scholars, patrons, performers, audiences, repertoires, venues, and specific works, this intriguing volume explores points of intersection between music and queerness in Europe and the United States in the years 1870 to 1950–a period when dramatic changes in musical expression and in the expression of individual sexual identity played similar roles in washing away the certainties of the past. Pursuing the shadowy, obscured tracks of queerness, contributors unravel connections among dissident identities and concrete aspects of musical style, gestures, and personae. Contributors are Byron Adams, Philip Brett, Malcolm Hamrick Brown, Sophie Fuller, Mitchell Morris, Jann Pasler, Ivan Raykoff, Fiona Richards, Eva Rieger, Gillian Rodger, Sherrie Tucker, and Lloyd Whitesell.Table of Contents: Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Secret Passages 1Sophie Fuller and Lloyd Whitesell PART 1: PRIVATE PERFORMANCE 1. “Desire Is Consuming Me”: The Life Partnership between Eugenie Schumann and Marie Fillunger 25Eva Rieger 2. Ravel’s Way 49Lloyd Whitesell 3. “Devoted Attention”: Looking for Lesbian Musicians in Fin-de-Siecle Britain 79Sophie Fuller PART 2: PUBLIC APPEARANCES 4. “He Isn’t a Marrying Man”: Gender and Sexuality in the Repertoire of Male Impersonators, 1870-1930 105Gillian Rodger 5. Tchaikovsky and His Music in Anglo-American Criticism, 1890s-1950s 134Malcolm Hamrick Brown 6. Transcription, Transgression, and the (Pro)creative Urge 150Ivan Raykoff 7. Musicology and Sexuality: The Example of Edward J. Dent 177Philip Brett PART 3: DOUBLE MEANINGS 8. Cross-Dressing in Saint-Saens’s Le Rouet d’Omphale: Ambiguities of Gender and Politics 191Jann Pasler 9. The “Dark Saying” of the Enigma: Homoeroticism and the Elgarian Paradox 216Byron Adams 10. “An Anthology of Friendship”: The Letters from John Ireland to Father Kenneth Thompson 245Fiona Richards PART 4: QUEER LISTENING 11. Tristan’s Wounds: On Homosexual Wagnerians at the Fin de Siecle 271Mitchell Morris 12. When Subjects Don’t Come Out 293Sherrie Tucker Contributors 311 Index 315