Story-Lives of Great Musicians
Story-Lives of Great Musicians by Francis Jameson Rowbotham is available here as the complete text, split into 817 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Story-Lives of Great Musicians by Francis Jameson Rowbotham. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #19748.
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Story-Lives of Great Musicians
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This edition of Story-Lives of Great Musicians by Francis Jameson Rowbotham carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #19748, divided into 10 chapters and 817 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry, and each section carries a contextual illustration generated from the passage itself.
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The complete text of Story-Lives of Great Musicians is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #19748 and divided into 817 sections.
This page carries the whole of Story-Lives of Great Musicians by Francis Jameson Rowbotham, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #19748, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 4082 sentences across 10 chapters. Each chapter stores a record of which sentences cover which part of the work, so nothing is quietly dropped between the source edition and the page you read.
How is Story-Lives of Great Musicians divided for reading?
Story-Lives of Great Musicians is presented in 10 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting Story-Lives of Great Musicians as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 817 sections of 5 sentences each. A section is short enough to hold in mind at once, which suits a reader working in a second language or returning to a long work in short sittings. The 10 chapters follow the divisions of the source edition, and each section carries a contextual illustration drawn from the passage it accompanies rather than a stock image.
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Every sentence of Story-Lives of Great Musicians can be played aloud, and so can any single word within it. Tapping a word plays it on its own and opens its dictionary entry, with the pronunciation shown in IPA alongside the part of speech and meaning. The reading voice uses United States English. This matters most for a work of this period, where a reader meets vocabulary and turns of phrase that are no longer in daily use and cannot be guessed reliably from spelling alone.
Questions about reading Story-Lives of Great Musicians
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Is this the complete text of Story-Lives of Great Musicians?
Yes. All 4082 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #19748 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of Story-Lives of Great Musicians is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #19748, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does Story-Lives of Great Musicians take to read?
About 340 minutes of reading across 817 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to read Story-Lives of Great Musicians section by section
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Vocabulary met early in Story-Lives of Great Musicians
Words and structures a reader meets early in Story-Lives of Great Musicians, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Small
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Story-Lives of Great Musicians; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Number
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Story-Lives of Great Musicians; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Musical
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Story-Lives of Great Musicians; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Symbols
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Story-Lives of Great Musicians; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.