How long does it take to read Harmonic Experience?
W. A. Mathieu
Harmonic Experience by W. A. Mathieu takes about 10 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 27 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1997. 570 pages, about 156,750 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 25 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Harmonic Experience offers a comprehensive view of music that reconciles the ancient harmonic system of just intonation with the modern system of 12-tone equal temperament. Saying that “the rules of music were not formed in our brains but in the resonance chambers of our bodies,” W.A. Mathieu recognizes the pronounced need for an experiential kind of teaching that reconnects the way we think music with the way we do music. Mathieu provides over a thousand musical examples and diagrams to illustrate the ideas he presents, allowing readers to reach a deeper level of response, to hear existing musical compositions more clearly, and to become thoroughly engaged in their own musical creativity.
Subjects: Harmony, History, Harmonische tonalität, Harmonieleer, Harmony of the spheres, Philosophy, asian
