How Long to Read The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950

How Long Does it Take to Read The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 30 minutes to read The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950 by Allen Forte

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

Description

In this pathbreaking book, Allen Forte uses modern analytical procedures to explore the large repertoire of beautiful love songs written during the heyday of American musical theater, the Big Bands, and Tin Pan Alley. Covering the work of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Harold Arlen, he seeks to illuminate this extraordinary music indigenous to America by revealing its deeper organizational characteristics. In so doing, he aims to establish it as a unique corpus of music that deserves more intensive study and appreciation by scholars and connoisseurs in the broader fields of American popular music and jazz. Expressing much of the traditional tonality associated with European music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the love songs of the Golden Age are shown to draw on a rich variety of elements--popular harmony, idiomatic lyric-writing, and Afro-American dance rhythms. His analyses of such songs as "Embraceable You" or "Yesterdays" in particular exemplify his ability to convey the sublime, unpretentious simplicity of this great music.

How long is The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950?

The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950 by Allen Forte is 384 pages long, and a total of 97,536 words.

This makes it 130% the length of the average book. It also has 119% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 52 minutes to read The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950 aloud.

What Reading Level is The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950?

The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950 is suitable for students ages 12 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.

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