How Long to Read Brahms in the Priesthood of Art

How Long Does it Take to Read Brahms in the Priesthood of Art?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 44 minutes to read Brahms in the Priesthood of Art by Laurie McManus

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

Description

Brahms in the Priesthood of Art: Gender and Art Religion in the Nineteenth-Century German Musical Imagination explores the intersection of gender, art religion (Kunstreligion) and other aesthetic currents in Brahms reception of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, it focuses on the theme of the self-sacrificing musician devoted to his art, or "priest of music," with its quasi-mystical and German Romantic implications of purity seemingly at odds with the lived reality of Brahms's bourgeois existence. While such German Romantic notions of art religion informed the thinking on musical purity and performance, after the failed socio-political revolutions of 1848/49, and in the face of scientific developments, the very concept of musical priesthood was questioned as outmoded. Furthermore, its essential gender ambiguity, accommodating such performing mothers as Clara Schumann and Amalie Joachim, could suit the bachelor Brahms but leave the composer open to speculation. Supportive critics combined elements of masculine and feminine values with a muddled rhetoric of prophets, messiahs, martyrs, and other art-religious stereotypes to account for the special status of Brahms and his circle. Detractors tended to locate these stereotypes in a more modern, fin-de-siècle psychological framework that questioned the composer's physical and mental well-being. In analyzing these receptions side by side, this book revises the accepted image of Brahms, recovering lost ambiguities in his reception. It resituates him not only in a romanticized priesthood of art, but also within the cultural and gendered discourses overlooked by the absolute music paradigm.

How long is Brahms in the Priesthood of Art?

Brahms in the Priesthood of Art by Laurie McManus is 277 pages long, and a total of 71,189 words.

This makes it 93% the length of the average book. It also has 87% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Brahms in the Priesthood of Art Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 29 minutes to read Brahms in the Priesthood of Art aloud.

What Reading Level is Brahms in the Priesthood of Art?

Brahms in the Priesthood of Art is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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