1976
9.0 (1 votes)
1h 36m
Genres
Documentary
Music
Production Companies
Harvard Productions
The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax
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."
Key Crew
Director: Humphrey Burton
Top Cast
Leonard Bernstein
Himself
Videos
The Unanswered Question 1973 2 Musical Syntax Bernstein Norton
