How Long to Read The Heaven Singing

How Long Does it Take to Read The Heaven Singing?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 35 minutes to read The Heaven Singing by Richard Rastall

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

Description

Richard Rastall's two books on music in early English religious drama complement each other. Heaven Singing provides an overview of the evidence for music in the plays, and defines the place, nature and cultural contexts of music in the drama; Minstrels Playing is a discussion of the evidence for every play in that repertory, and is therefore concerned with the place and nature of musical performance in each play individually.Where should there be music in an anomymous English religious play of the fifteenth or sixteenth century? What sort of music should it be, and by what forces should it be performed? This volume shows how music was used at the time of the plays' production, both through a close examination of individual texts, and of the place of music in the intellectual and artistic life of the middle ages. Richard Rastall begins by discussing the internal literary evidence of the play texts, the surviving notated music in the plays, and documentary evidence of productions, before turning to the wider cultural context in which the plays were composed and performed. He considers the representational and dynamic functions of music in the plays, the relationship between music, drama and liturgy, and the performers themselves - who they were, and what they might be expected to do. Related factors necessary to the discovery of how music was used in late medieval drama are also considered, from medieval cosmology and the numerical construction of plays to the age and size of boy actors.Dr RICHARD RASTALL is Reader in Historical Musicology at the University of Leeds, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts.

How long is The Heaven Singing?

The Heaven Singing by Richard Rastall is 452 pages long, and a total of 113,904 words.

This makes it 153% the length of the average book. It also has 139% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Heaven Singing Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 22 minutes to read The Heaven Singing aloud.

What Reading Level is The Heaven Singing?

The Heaven Singing is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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