How Long to Read An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music

How Long Does it Take to Read An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 11 minutes to read An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music by Nat Shapiro

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

Description

Writing about music-about what it is and what it means-is akin to describing the act of love. Somehow, the reduction of the experience to an unblushingly detailed exposition of how, where, when, and why who does what to whom, from prelude to resolu tion, loses everything in the translation. The other extreme, the one wherein the writer, in desperation, resorts to metaphor (with or without benefit of meter and rhyme), most often results in im agery that is banal, vulgar, inane, obscure, pretentious, and almost always insufferably romantic. To achieve good and accurate writing about music is as rare an accomplishment as expert wine-tasting, lion-taming, diamond-cut ting, truffie-finding and (if one just happens to be an unconverted Mohican brave) deer-tracking. Only the intuitive, the pure, the sensual, and the intrepid need apply. Professional musicians often evidence a fixed tendency either to rudely ignore or else to actively despise those of us who bravely try to understand, define, and describe their art. To many composers and instrumentalists, those outsiders (nonmusicians) who have the temerity to discuss anything more abstract than the digital dexterity of a fiddler, the particular vanity of a conductor, or the wage scales for overtime recording sessions are judged worthy only of contempt or-at the most-patronizing tolerance. "Music means itself," insists one of the contributors to the collection that follows, and many practitioners of the art of organ ized sound would prefer to leave it at that.

How long is An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music?

An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music by Nat Shapiro is 418 pages long, and a total of 107,844 words.

This makes it 141% the length of the average book. It also has 132% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 49 minutes to read An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music aloud.

What Reading Level is An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music?

An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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