How Long to Read Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past

How Long Does it Take to Read Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 45 minutes to read Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past by Edmund Joseph Goehring

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

Description

A bold, restorative vision of Mozart's works, and Western art music generally, as manifestations of an idealism rooted in the sociable nature of humans. For over a generation now, many leading performers, critics, and scholars of Mozart's music have taken a rejection of transcendence as axiomatic. This essentially modernist, antiromantic orientation attempts to neutralize the sorts of aesthetic experiences that presuppose an enchantment with Mozart's art, an engagement traditionally articulated by such terms as intention, mimesis, author, and genius. And what is true of much recent Mozart interpretation isoften manifest in the interpretation of Western art music more generally. Edmund Goehring's Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past explores what gets lost when the vocabulary of enchantment is abandoned. The bookthen proceeds to offer an alternative vision of Mozart's works and of the wider canon of Western art music. A modernized poetics, Goehring argues, reduces art to mechanism or process. It sees less because it excludes a necessaryand enlarging human presence: the generative, and receiving, "I." This fascinating new book-length essay is addressed to any reader interested in the performing arts, visual arts, and literature and their relationship to the broader culture. Goehring draws on seminal thinkers in art criticism and philosophy to propose that such works as Mozart's radiate an idealism that has human sociability both as its source and its object. Edmund J. Goehring is Professor of Music History at the University of Western Ontario.

How long is Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past?

Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past by Edmund Joseph Goehring is 223 pages long, and a total of 56,419 words.

This makes it 75% the length of the average book. It also has 69% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 8 minutes to read Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past aloud.

What Reading Level is Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past?

Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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