ABSTRACT
One of the advantages of teaching a course on women in music is the incredible availability of materials on the world wide web. Some instructors screen students to make sure they have at least nominal music reading ability. Others accept anyone and have no reading or analytical skills required. The obvious drawback is that most of the non-majors, in addition to not reading music, have had little, if any, background in either music history or theory. Students from other majors usually enliven the discussions as their attitudes toward music, especially classical music, are quite different from the music majors. Also, they are often more adept at referring to literature, science, philosophy, and so on than the music majors, whose curriculum is limited almost exclusively to music courses. Women in classical music, and most of the time the non-music majors know more about women in popular music than many of the music majors.
