How Long to Read The Matter of Song in Early Modern England

How Long Does it Take to Read The Matter of Song in Early Modern England?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 32 minutes to read The Matter of Song in Early Modern England by Katherine Rebecca Larson

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

Description

Given the variety and richness of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English 'songscape', it might seem unsurprising to suggest that early modern song needs to be considered as sung. When a reader encounters a song in a sonnet sequence, a romance, and even a masque or a play, however, the tendency is to engage with it as poem rather than as musical performance. Opening up the notion of song from a performance-based perspective The Matter of Song in Early Modern England considers the implications of reading song not simply as lyric text but as an embodied and gendered musical practice. 0Animating the traces of song preserved in physiological and philosophical commentaries, singing handbooks, poetic treatises, and literary texts ranging from Mary Sidney Herbert's Psalmes to John Milton's Comus, the book confronts song's ephemerality, its lexical and sonic capriciousness, and its airy substance. These features can resist critical analysis but were vital to song's affective workings in the early modern period. The volume foregrounds the need to attend much more0closely to the embodied and musical dimensions of literary production and circulation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. It also makes an important and timely contribution to our understanding of women's engagement with song as writers and as performers. A companion recording of fourteen songs featuring Larson (soprano) and Lucas Harris (lute) brings the project's innovative methodology and central case studies to life.

How long is The Matter of Song in Early Modern England?

The Matter of Song in Early Modern England by Katherine Rebecca Larson is 266 pages long, and a total of 68,096 words.

This makes it 90% the length of the average book. It also has 83% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Matter of Song in Early Modern England Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 12 minutes to read The Matter of Song in Early Modern England aloud.

What Reading Level is The Matter of Song in Early Modern England?

The Matter of Song in Early Modern England 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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