Unit 4 Assignment
The Piano-Girl and the Accomplished Woman: Gender Roles in Music

Listening:
Fanny Hensel (1805-1847)
“September” from
Das Jahr (1841)
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Piano Trio in G minor, op. 17 (1846)
Movement 1, Allegro moderato
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
Gaelic Symphony, op. 32 (1894)
Movement 2, Alla siciliana – Allegro vivace – Andante
Reading:
Frisch,
Music in the Nineteenth Century
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and the Musical Salon, 85-87
Clara Wieck Schumann and the Keyboard, 87-90
Burkholder,
A History of Western Music (9th Edition)
Amy Beach, 753-755
Austen,
Pride and Prejudice
Volume I, Chapter VIII, 24-28
Upton,
Woman in Music
Woman in Music, 15-32
Tick, “Passed Away is the Piano Girl: Changes in American Musical Life, 1870-1900”
325-345
Assignment:
I. After completing the reading, please answer the question below in one to two
paragraphs
.
a. What is the “piano girl” stereotype, as described in Judith Tick’s article? How
was this image perpetuated? How was it challenged over time?
II. Come up with two discussion questions.
a. One about the concept of the “accomplished woman”
b. One about your reading of George Upton’s
Woman in Music
Assignment cannot exceed two pages. All discussion questions must spark discussion, in other
words these should be thoughtful and probing, not yes-no, true-false, would-you-rather, or
hypothetical.
 Your assignment should be in standard
format (name, date, section time, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, etc.)

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