How Long to Read Nicolas-Etienne Framery

How Long Does it Take to Read Nicolas-Etienne Framery?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 57 minutes to read Nicolas-Etienne Framery by Mark Darlow

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Description

This study offers a reassessment of the librettist, parodist and critic Nicolas-Etienne Framery (1745-1810) whom scholars have frequently mentioned in passing, but whose career remains little known and poorly understood today. Though Framery was also active as a translator of Italian epic works and an occasional author of narrative, this study considers his work as a dramatist and theatrical critic, and demonstrates his constant concern for progress in French lyric theatre. Framery was one of the generation of librettists to write for the new Comédie-Italienne after 1762, and his enthusiasm for the innovative opéra-comiquewas unfailing. His attention to musical terminology made him one of the major contributors, alongside Momigny and Ginguené, to theEncyclopédie méthodique: musique. Unlike better-known theorists of music such as Rousseau, Framery adopted a progressive stance towards musical theatre and took an active part, in the 1770s, in the introduction of Italian lyric forms into the French theatre world. Parodies of Sacchini and Paisiello are considered here, as are Framery's theoretical views on composition, on the relationship between music and language, and on operatic word setting. His progressivism extended to journalism (he was the editor of the first periodical on music in France, theJournal de musique, and a columnist for theMercure de France) and to administrative issues (he acted as agent for the Bureau established to protect authors' rights during the Revolution). Framery's writings for theJournal, for theEncyclopédie méthodique, and for the Institut de France show him to be a pioneering thinker on music who preferred the concept of expression to classical theories of music as imitation. Framery's approach led him to adopt a career at variance with tradition and it is only now, in the light of recent research on theopéra-comique, that his innovations in the lyric theatre can be properly appreciated. 'Mark Darlow's study is a pioneering assessment [...] which embraces a large range of the subject's activity, [focusing] on theatre history, the press and musical writings.'British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 'Students of the closely entangled French musical and literary scenes will find in Mark Darlow's book much information and a valuable model of what can be achieved by thorough interdisciplinary investigation.'Music and Letters

How long is Nicolas-Etienne Framery?

Nicolas-Etienne Framery by Mark Darlow is 413 pages long, and a total of 104,489 words.

This makes it 139% the length of the average book. It also has 128% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Nicolas-Etienne Framery Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 30 minutes to read Nicolas-Etienne Framery aloud.

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