How Long to Read Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life

How Long Does it Take to Read Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 1 minute to read Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life by Elaine Stratton Hild

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Description

"Medieval documents reveal that for centuries of European history, singing for a person at the moment of death was considered to be the ideal accompaniment to a life's ending. Rituals for the dying were well developed, practiced widely, and thoroughly integrated with music. Indeed, these rituals reveal that music, rather than the Eucharist, held a privileged position at the final breath. Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life examines and recovers, to the extent possible, the music sung for the dying during the Middle Ages. The book offers a view of the plainchant repertory through the sources of individual institutions. The first four chapters contain a series of "case studies": close readings of rituals from diverse communities, each as they appear in a single source. The rituals' chants are transcribed into modern notation and analyzed, both for their relationships between text and melody and for their functions within the rituals. Created for the powerful and the poor, the educated and the uneducated, women and men, monastics, clerics, and laity, these manuscripts offer a glimpse into the religious practices that distinguished communities from one another and bound them together within a single tradition. The book provides the first editions of the rituals' chants and considers the functions of the music. Why was music given such a prominent position within the deathbed liturgies? Why did communities gather and sing when a loved one was dying? The manuscripts reveal a lost art of comforting the dying and the grieving"--

How long is Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life?

Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life by Elaine Stratton Hild is 241 pages long, and a total of 60,491 words.

This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 74% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 30 minutes to read Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life aloud.

What Reading Level is Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life?

Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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