Listening workshop: Can music have a gender?

Reading: Aaron Copland, Excerpt of “Sonata Form” from What to Listen for in Music (pp. 179–89)
Highlight/underline any gendered terms as you read.

Listening: Beethoven, Symphony No. 5, first movement [sonata form example]
Mozart, Quartet in D Major, KV 285, Adagio
Ella Fitzgerald, “Someone to Watch Over Me”
Mötley Crüe, “Shout at the Devil”
Make a list ordering these selections from most to least “feminine.”

Tasks:

• Listening and Gender [critical writing]