It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read Antithetical Arts by Peter Kivy
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Antithetical Arts constitutes a defence of musical formalism against those who would put literary interpretations on the absolute music canon. In Part I, the historical origins of both the literary interpretation of absolute music and musical formalism are laid out. In Part II, specific attempts to put literary interpretations on various works of the absolute music canon are examined and criticized. Finally, in Part III, the question is raised as to what the human significance of absolute music is, if it does not lie in its representational or narrative content. The answer is that, as yet,...
Antithetical Arts by Peter Kivy is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.
This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read Antithetical Arts aloud.
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