Contents: Introduction, Ian Biddle and Kirsten Gibson Section 1 Effeminate and Virile Musics and Masculinities: Introduction, Ian Biddle and Kirsten Gibson Music and masculinity in the Middle Ages, Elizabeth Eva Leach Music, melancholy and masculinity in early modern England, Kirsten Gibson Of Mars I sing Monteverdi voicing virility, Richard Wistreich Haydn and the consequences of presumed effeminacy, Howard Irving Virile music by Hector Berlioz, Fred Everett Maus. Section 2 National Masculinities, National Musics: Introduction, Ian Biddle and Kirsten Gibson Gendered reception of Brahms: masculinity, nationalism and musical politics, Marcia J. Citron Aspiring to manliness: Edward Elgar and the pressures of hegemonic masculinity, Corissa Gould 'I am blessed with fruit': masculinity, androgyny and creativity in early 20th-century German music, Claire Taylor-Jay Hellenism, the divine and ideal masculinity in Manuel de Falla's AtlA!ntida, Esther Zaplana. Section 3 Identities, Voices, Discourses: Introduction, Ian Biddle and Kirsten Gibson Knives and tears: representations of masculinity in late 19th-century Italian opera, Annamaria Cecconi Caught in the silken throat: modernist investments in the male vocal fetish, Ian Biddle Hermaphrodism and the masculine body: Tippett's aesthetic views in a gendered context, Iain Stannard Select bibliography Index.