The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax

The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax  - Movie (1976)

Bernstein at Harvard

Original title

The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax

Released

1/11/1976

Origin country

US

Genre

Documentary, Music

Production companies

Harvard Productions

Budget

$1,000.00

Revenue

$2,000.00

Runtime

1hr 36min

Description

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."

Trailer

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