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The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax (1976)

The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax (1976)

Music Documentary

Bernstein at Harvard

Release Date: 1976, January 11
Directors: Humphrey Burton
Production: Harvard Productions

Overview:

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew analogies to other disciplines, such as poetry, aesthetics, and especially linguistics, hoping to make these lectures accessible to an audience with limited or no musical experience, while maintaining an intelligent level of discourse: Syntax refers to the study of the structural organization of a sentence, or as Bernstein summarizes, "the actual structures that arise from that phonological stuff."

Keywords:

music linguistics harvard university classical music leonard bernstein