Gender and other dualities of music history -- Difference and power in music -- Loving it -- Charles Ives and gender ideology -- Ethnomusicologist as midwife -- Women as musicians -- Miriam sings her song -- Lesbian fugue -- Reading as an opera queen -- Schwarze Gredel and the engendered minor mode in Mozart's operas -- Opera -- Britten's dream -- Of women, music, and power : a model from Seicento Florence -- Carnaval, cross-dressing, and the woman in the mirror -- Narrative agendas in "absolute" music : identity and difference in Brahms's Third Symphony.