About This Book
This book undoes 50 years of mythmaking about Stravinsky's life in music. During his spectacular career, Igor Stravinsky underplayed his Russian past in favor of a European cosmopolitanism. Richard Taruskin has refused to take the composer at his word. In this long-awaited study, he defines Stravins...
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25h 16m
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180 WPM
18h 11m
average reader
250 WPM
12h 59m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 272,800 wordsπ
37 days at 30 min/day
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20 h 12 min
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30 h 19 min
Audio 2x
15 h 9 min
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