PEP | Article - The Psychoanalytical Approach to the Masculine and Feminine Principles in Music: Margaret Tilly. Amer. J. of Psychiatry, CIII, 1947, pp. 477–483.

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Abstract

This so-called psychoanalytic approach to music is based on the concepts of Jung. Certain elements in musical composition are arbitrarily selected as characteristic of masculine and feminine personality types and the composers are classified accordingly. Masculine qualities in music are supposed to be shown by drive, rhythmic power and 'superior thinking'; 'feminine qualities' by sentimentality, quickly shifting emotions, etc. The author is a music therapist.