How Long to Read Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte

How Long Does it Take to Read Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 50 minutes to read Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte by Charles Ford

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

Description

Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment explains how Mozart's music for Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte 'sounds' the intentions of Da Ponte's characters and their relationships with one another. Mozart, by way of the infinitely generative and beautiful logic of the sonata principle, did not merely interpret Da Ponte's characterizations but lent them temporal, musical forms. Charles Ford's analytic interpretation of these musical forms concerns processes and structures in detail and at medium- to long-term levels. He addresses the music of a wide range of arias and ensembles, and develops original ways to interpret the two largely overlooked operatic genres of secco recitative and finales. Moreover, Ford presents a new method by which to relate musical details directly to philosophical concepts, and thereby, the music of the operas to the inwardly contradictory thinking of the European Enlightenment. This involves close readings of late eighteenth-century understandings of 'man' and nature, self and other, morality and transgression, and gendered identities and sexuality, with particular reference to contemporary writers, especially Goethe, Kant, Laclos, Rousseau, Sade, Schiller, Sterne and Wollstonecraft. The concluding discussion of the implied futures of the operas argues that their divided sexualities, which are those of the Enlightenment as a whole, have come to form our own unquestioned assumptions about gender differences and sexuality. This, along with the elegant and eloquent precision of Mozart's music, is why Figaro, Giovanni and Così still maintain their vital immediacy for audiences today.

How long is Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte?

Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte by Charles Ford is 350 pages long, and a total of 87,500 words.

This makes it 118% the length of the average book. It also has 107% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 58 minutes to read Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte aloud.

What Reading Level is Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte?

Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte 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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