How Long to Read Gregorio Ballabene’s Forty-eight-part Mass for Twelve Choirs (1772)

How Long Does it Take to Read Gregorio Ballabene’s Forty-eight-part Mass for Twelve Choirs (1772)?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 55 minutes to read Gregorio Ballabene’s Forty-eight-part Mass for Twelve Choirs (1772) by Florian Bassani

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

Description

Neither Spem in alium, the widely acclaimed ‘songe of fortie partes’ by Thomas Tallis, nor Alessandro Striggio’s forty-part Mass is the largest-scale counterpoint work in Western music. The actual winner is Gregorio Ballabene, a relatively unknown Roman maestro di cappella, a contemporary of Giovanni Paisiello, Joseph Haydn and Luigi Boccherini, who composed in forty-eight parts for twelve choirs. His Mass saw only a public rehearsal and was never performed liturgically despite all of Ballabene’s efforts to promote it. On closer inspection, however, the work deserves special consideration as a piece of outstanding combinatory creativity – the product of a talent able to conceive, structure and realise a project of colossal dimensions. It might even be claimed that if Charles Burney had gained knowledge of it, all derogatory comments by nineteenth-century music historians would not have succeeded in extinguishing the interest of later generations. Ballabene’s Mass has remained completely unstudied until today, even though the score survives in prominent collections. This study offers, for the first time, a historical and analytical perspective on this overlooked manifestation of a very individual musical intelligence.

How long is Gregorio Ballabene’s Forty-eight-part Mass for Twelve Choirs (1772)?

Gregorio Ballabene’s Forty-eight-part Mass for Twelve Choirs (1772) by Florian Bassani is 114 pages long, and a total of 28,956 words.

This makes it 38% the length of the average book. It also has 35% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Gregorio Ballabene’s Forty-eight-part Mass for Twelve Choirs (1772) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 38 minutes to read Gregorio Ballabene’s Forty-eight-part Mass for Twelve Choirs (1772) aloud.

What Reading Level is Gregorio Ballabene’s Forty-eight-part Mass for Twelve Choirs (1772)?

Gregorio Ballabene’s Forty-eight-part Mass for Twelve Choirs (1772) is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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