How Long to Read A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music

How Long Does it Take to Read A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 39 minutes to read A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music by Robert S. Hatten

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In his third volume on musical expressive meaning, Robert S. Hatten examines virtual agency in music from the perspectives of movement, gesture, embodiment, topics, tropes, emotion, narrativity, and performance. Distinguished from the actual agency of composers and performers, whose intentional actions either create music as notated or manifest music as significant sound, virtual agency is inferred from the implied actions of those sounds, as they move and reveal tendencies within music-stylistic contexts. From our most basic attributions of sources for perceived energies in music, to the highest realm of our engagement with musical subjectivity, Hatten explains how virtual agents arose as distinct from actual ones, how unspecified actants can take on characteristics of (virtual) human agents, and how virtual agents assume various actorial roles. Along the way, Hatten demonstrates some of the musical means by which composers and performers from different historical eras have staged and projected various levels of virtual agency, engaging listeners imaginatively and interactively within the expressive realms of their virtual and fictional musical worlds.

How long is A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music?

A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music by Robert S. Hatten is 334 pages long, and a total of 84,836 words.

This makes it 113% the length of the average book. It also has 104% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 43 minutes to read A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music aloud.

What Reading Level is A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music?

A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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