It takes the average reader 5 hours and 3 minutes to read Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera by Sarah Kay
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Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouvères from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera contends that song is not best analyzed as "words plus music" but rather as a distinctive way of sounding words. Rather than situating them in their immediate period, Sarah Kay fruitfully listens for and traces crosscurrents between medieval French and Occitan songs and both earlier poetry and much later opera. Reflecting on a song's songlike quality—as, for example, the sound of light in the dawn sky, as breathed by beasts, as sirenlike in its perils—Kay...
Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera by Sarah Kay is 296 pages long, and a total of 75,776 words.
This makes it 100% the length of the average book. It also has 93% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 54 minutes to read Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera aloud.
Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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