How Long to Read Salons, Singers and Songs

How Long Does it Take to Read Salons, Singers and Songs?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 9 minutes to read Salons, Singers and Songs by David Tunley

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

Description

Music! It is the great pleasure of this city, the great occupation of the drawing-rooms, which have banished politics, and which have renounced literature, from ennui. Jules Janin, An American in Paris, 1843 Afternoon and evening entertainments in the drawing rooms of the aristocracy and upper middle classes were a staple of cultural life in nineteenth-century Paris. Music was often a feature of these occasions and private salons provided important opportunities for musicians, especially singers, to develop their careers. Such recitals included excerpts from favourite operas, but also the more traditional forms of French song, the romance and its successor the m die. Drawing on extensive research into the musical press of the period, David Tunley paints a vivid portrait of the nineteenth-century Parisien salons and the performers who sang in them. Against this colourful backdrop, he discusses the development of French romantic song, with its hallmarks of simplicity and clarity of diction. Combined with Italian influences and the impression made by Schubert's songs, the French romance developed into a form with greater complexity - the m die. Salons, Singers and Songs describes this transformation and the seeds it sowed for music by later composers such as Faur Duparc and Debussy.

How long is Salons, Singers and Songs?

Salons, Singers and Songs by David Tunley is 245 pages long, and a total of 62,475 words.

This makes it 83% the length of the average book. It also has 76% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Salons, Singers and Songs Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 41 minutes to read Salons, Singers and Songs aloud.

What Reading Level is Salons, Singers and Songs?

Salons, Singers and Songs 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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