It takes the average reader 7 hours and 51 minutes to read Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music by Vincenzo Galilei
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Vincenzo Galilei, the father of the astronomer Galileo, was a guiding light of the Florentine Camerata. His Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music, published in 1581 or 1582 and now translated into English for the first time, was among the most influential music treatises of his era. Galilei is best known for his rejection of modern polyphonic music in favor of Greek monophonic song. The treatise sheds new light on his importance, both as a musician who advocated a new philosophy of music history and theory based on an objective search for the truth, and as an experimental scientist who was one...
Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music by Vincenzo Galilei is 464 pages long, and a total of 117,856 words.
This makes it 157% the length of the average book. It also has 144% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 44 minutes to read Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music aloud.
Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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