It takes the average reader 4 hours and 34 minutes to read The Matter of Song in Early Modern England by Katherine R. Larson
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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....
The Matter of Song in Early Modern England by Katherine R. Larson is 272 pages long, and a total of 68,544 words.
This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 14 minutes to read The Matter of Song in Early Modern England aloud.
The Matter of Song in Early Modern England is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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