How Long to Read Tuning the Antipodes: Battles for performing pitch in Melbourne

How Long Does it Take to Read Tuning the Antipodes: Battles for performing pitch in Melbourne?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 50 minutes to read Tuning the Antipodes: Battles for performing pitch in Melbourne by Simon Purtell

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

Description

Examining the many controversies associated with pitch standards in Melbourne over more than a hundred years, Simon Purtell discovers their impact on the tuning of the city’s orchestras and organs, as well as its defence, municipal and Salvation Army bands. This fascinating history involves famous local and touring singers, conductors and organists, including Nellie Melba, Malcolm Sargent and William McKie, revealing just how complex a problem it was to ensure that Melbourne’s music-makers remained in tune. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has nothing on the saga of ‘Pitch, pitch, that...

How long is Tuning the Antipodes: Battles for performing pitch in Melbourne?

Tuning the Antipodes: Battles for performing pitch in Melbourne by Simon Purtell is 230 pages long, and a total of 57,500 words.

This makes it 78% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Tuning the Antipodes: Battles for performing pitch in Melbourne Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 14 minutes to read Tuning the Antipodes: Battles for performing pitch in Melbourne aloud.

What Reading Level is Tuning the Antipodes: Battles for performing pitch in Melbourne?

Tuning the Antipodes: Battles for performing pitch in Melbourne 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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