How Long to Read English Folk Songs

How Long Does it Take to Read English Folk Songs?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 40 minutes to read English Folk Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams

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

Description

This collection is filled with songs that tell of the pleasures and pains of love, the patterns of the countryside and the lives of ordinary people. Here are unfaithful soldiers, ghostly lovers, whalers on stormy seas, cuckolds and tricksters. By turns funny, plain-speaking and melancholic, these songs evoke a lost world and, with their melodies provided, record a vital musical tradition. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land - as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).

How long is English Folk Songs?

English Folk Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams is 160 pages long, and a total of 40,000 words.

This makes it 54% the length of the average book. It also has 49% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read English Folk Songs Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 38 minutes to read English Folk Songs aloud.

What Reading Level is English Folk Songs?

English Folk Songs is suitable for students ages 10 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

Where Can I Buy English Folk Songs?

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