It takes the average reader and 32 minutes to read The Flute by Jeremy Montagu
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
This book recounts the history and development of the tansverse flute from the middle ages to the present day. It decribes the development from the simple cylinder of the middle ages and the Renaissance, into the elaborate instrument of the Baroque period for which Bach wrote, and into the classical instrument of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. It recounts also the radical alterations by Theobald Boehm which turned it into the flute that is played today. Further sections describe the changes in the materials from which flutes are made and how flutes work. The book is illustrated with many photographs from the greatest collection of flutes in Britain, the Bate Collection of Historical Instruments in Oxford.
The Flute by Jeremy Montagu is 32 pages long, and a total of 8,064 words.
This makes it 11% the length of the average book. It also has 10% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes and 44 minutes to read The Flute aloud.
The Flute is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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