Chapter 6

Chapter Goals

To understand relationships between gender, music, and culture.
To learn how music reflects and shapes cultural understandings about gender.
To become familiar with important trends, composers, and compositions that exemplify gender issues in music.

Listening Guide Repertoire

6.1 – “Partita for 8 Voices: I. Allemande,” Caroline Shaw

6.2 – “Respect,” by Otis Redding, performed by Aretha Franklin

6.3 – Mary Natvig. Mekar Sari, Women’s gamelan

6.4 – Habanera from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet

6.5 – Act II/Scene 2, from the opera, Siegfried by Richard Wagner

6.6 – “Non so piu cosa son,” Act I from the opera, Marriage of Figaro by Mozart

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