In my own experience, gender greatly affects music. I am basing this statement strictly on what i have seen due to marching band and wind ensemble members. The females tend to fall into the higher pitched instrument category, while the males tend to fall into the lower pitched instrument category. For example, when you think of a tuba player you don't exactly think about this...
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I had to search for a good while before i found this picture. The picture is quite funny. In my opinion you have to have big lips to play in the big mouth piece, not to mention, you have to have the strength to carry it. This would be my depiction of a tuba player...
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When i think about wood winds i picture mostly females. When i think about brass players i usually picture male players. The Converse Wind Ensemble is a very good example of this. We only have 3 female trumpet players from our school. The rest of the brass section is made up of community male brass players. I wish i would of known this in middle school. I would have started learning the tuba. I would probably have gotten a huge scholarship or something for being the only girl. hahahahaahahha.
In my marching band, the flute and clarinet section was completely dominated by females. There was not one male flute or clarinet player until i was a senior. The flute player was a freshman and was so intimidated by the huge section of girls that he ended up quitting. :) The saxophone section was evenly split as well as the trumpet section. The mellophone/french horn was an all female section. The tubas were an all male section except for one female(she was pretty manly though).
In my marching band, everyone tended to listen to the same type of music. There was not really a big distinction of music between the genders. Everyone tended to like the same things. The majority of the members listened to the general (popular) radio music. Also, Every member had Carolina Crown music on their ipod, and dreamed about marching with them one day.
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I think it's interesting that there is a common thing in a lot of our blogs. Almost all of us associate higher pitched instruments with females and lower pitched instruments with males. Also, the tuba is referred to a lot as being masculine, as well as other brass instruments. So, as odd as it is to say some of these things out loud or write them down where other people can read them, other people are thinking the same things.
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