How Long to Read Don Giovanni (Mozart - Da Ponte): From Legend to Myth

How Long Does it Take to Read Don Giovanni (Mozart - Da Ponte): From Legend to Myth?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read Don Giovanni (Mozart - Da Ponte): From Legend to Myth by Luca Andrea Giordano

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

Description

One of the most used and abused myths in literature, music, and art in general - and even common discourse - is without doubt that of Don Juan. Revised countless times by diverse artistic personalities, and originating in popular legend, Don Juan was first given literary personality in the tragic drama El burlador de Sevilla (1630), attributed to the Spanish dramatist Tirso de Molina. Through a literary selection composed by the most significant accounts, one participates in a parable in which the myth starts from a seventeenth century conception (in which those who violate the law are condemned), passes to a romantic one in which those who transgress are self-conscious at the same time, and finally funnels through the dawn of the twentieth century (in which the rebellion against social laws is seen as normal). Ethical individualism becomes a tragic but necessary choice - to finally arrive at the mythical contemporary interpretation in which the hero rejects the bourgeois values of society preferring geometric abstraction or neurosis to the real and sensitive universe. However, it is in the transposition to music that the myth of the impertinent libertine acquires a unique fascination, because it has sprung from the familiar, sensual and mysterious fusion of such seemingly different languages but which in substance create, in complete unison, the trait d'union between the living being and the sublime. From the seventeenth century onwards, there are many works inspired by this character, including opera and dance. Without a doubt, the most known work comes from the exceptional nature of the Mozart-Da Ponte. The present work, inspired by some critical reflections, deals with the meeting between an extraordinarily malleable myth, a composer and a librettist capable of recognizing, and lifting to unthinkable heights, the symbolic components of the ancient legend, sealing a unique alchemy able to transmit even the smallest nuances of human nature.

How long is Don Giovanni (Mozart - Da Ponte): From Legend to Myth?

Don Giovanni (Mozart - Da Ponte): From Legend to Myth by Luca Andrea Giordano is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Don Giovanni (Mozart - Da Ponte): From Legend to Myth Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read Don Giovanni (Mozart - Da Ponte): From Legend to Myth aloud.

What Reading Level is Don Giovanni (Mozart - Da Ponte): From Legend to Myth?

Don Giovanni (Mozart - Da Ponte): From Legend to Myth is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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