How Long to Read Style and Music

How Long Does it Take to Read Style and Music?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 45 minutes to read Style and Music by Leonard B. Meyer

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

Description

Leonard Meyer proposes a theory of style and style change that relates the choices made by composers to the constraints of psychology, cultural context, and musical traditions. He explores why, out of the abundance of compositional possibilities, composers choose to replicate some patterns and neglect others. Meyer devotes the latter part of his book to a sketch-history of nineteenth-century music. He shows explicitly how the beliefs and attitudes of Romanticism influenced the choices of composers from Beethoven to Mahler and into our own time. "A monumental work. . . . Most authors concede...

How long is Style and Music?

Style and Music by Leonard B. Meyer is 396 pages long, and a total of 101,376 words.

This makes it 134% the length of the average book. It also has 124% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Style and Music Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 13 minutes to read Style and Music aloud.

What Reading Level is Style and Music?

Style and Music is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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