Movie
The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics
“Bernstein at Harvard”
9.0/10
1976
2h 23m
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: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.
Director
Humphrey Burton
Movie Information
Release Date
January 11, 1976
Runtime
2h 23m
Status
Released
Original Language
en
Vote Count
1
Production
Harvard Productions
