About This Book
Meyer makes a valuable statement on aesthetics, criteria for assessing great works of music, compositional practices and theories of the present day, and predictions of the future of Western culture. His postlude, written for the book's twenty-fifth anniversary, looks back at his thoughts on the dir...
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Reading Time Estimates
9h 54m
slow reader
180 WPM
7h 8m
average reader
250 WPM
5h 6m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 106,975 wordsπ
15 days at 30 min/day
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7 h 8 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
7 h 55 min
at 1.5x narration speed
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11 h 53 min
Audio 2x
5 h 57 min
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- π 15 daysΒ reading 30 min/day
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