Movie
The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax
“Bernstein at Harvard”
9.0/10
1976
1h 36m
en
Documentary
Music
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."
Director
Humphrey Burton
Movie Information
Release Date
January 11, 1976
Runtime
1h 36m
Status
Released
Original Language
en
Vote Count
1
Production
Harvard Productions
