The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax
Bernstein at Harvard
Genres
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."
Details
Budget
$1000
Revenue
$2000
Runtime
96 min
Release Date
1976-01-11
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
1
Vote Average
9
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