REFLECTION TEN
Due: Tuesday, April 7, 1998.

Be sure to indicate the reflection number in the heading of your paper and follow other expectations for format and writing criteria.

Reflection Ten - Unit 9: Music and Gender

Choose and answer two.

• What roles did wom en conventionally assume in European art music? Which were conventionally assigned to men? According to Richard Leppert, gender roles associated with specific instruments, particularly keyboard instruments, reflect and shape roles in other domains of social activity. Do you find Leppert's view convincing? Why or why not?

• To what degree do you agree with O'Brien that the status of women musicians has changed in the twentieth-century. Are any of the attitudes that Leppert notes still present today?

• Do any of the musical examples in this week's assignment reflect attempts to challenge existing social order. If so, by what means?