The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax

Jan 11, 1976

1h 36m

★ 9.0

Bernstein at Harvard

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."

Genres

Documentary

Music

Production Companies

Harvard Productions

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Cast

Himself

Leonard Bernstein

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The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax

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