The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics
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:Semantics is the study of meaning in language, and Bernstein's third lecture, "musical semantics", accordingly, is Bernstein's first attempt to explain meaning in music. Although Bernstein defines musical semantics as "meaning, both musical and extramusical" this lecture focuses exclusively on the "musical" version of meaning.
Details
Budget
$1000
Revenue
$2000
Runtime
143 min
Release Date
1976-01-11
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
1
Vote Average
9
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