How Long to Read Messiaen's Musical Techniques: The Composer's View and Beyond

How Long Does it Take to Read Messiaen's Musical Techniques: The Composer's View and Beyond?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read Messiaen's Musical Techniques: The Composer's View and Beyond by Gareth Healey

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Description

Despite Messiaen's position as one of the greatest technical innovators of the twentieth century, his musical language has not been comprehensively defined and investigated. The composer's 1944 theoretical study, The Technique of My Musical Language, expounds only its initial stages, and while his posthumously published Traité de rythme, de couleur, et d'ornithologie contains detailed explanations of selected techniques, in most cases the reader is left to define these more precisely by observing them in the context of Messiaen's analyses of his own works. Technical processes are nevertheless...

How long is Messiaen's Musical Techniques: The Composer's View and Beyond?

Messiaen's Musical Techniques: The Composer's View and Beyond by Gareth Healey is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Messiaen's Musical Techniques: The Composer's View and Beyond Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Messiaen's Musical Techniques: The Composer's View and Beyond aloud.

What Reading Level is Messiaen's Musical Techniques: The Composer's View and Beyond?

Messiaen's Musical Techniques: The Composer's View and Beyond is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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