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The Unanswered Question - Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein

The Unanswered Question - Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein

1976 1 Seasons 6 Episodes ⭐ 0.0

The 1973 Norton Lectures by Leonard Bernstein, presented at his alma mater Harvard University, explores all types of music, including: folk music, pop songs, symphonies, tonal and atonal works; all taught by legendary master composer and conductor, Leonard Bernstein.

The 1973 Norton Lectures by Leonard Bernstein, presented at his alma mater Harvard University, explores all types of music, including: folk music, pop songs, symphonies, tonal and atonal works; all taught by legendary master composer and conductor, Leonard Bernstein.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Musical Phonology

Phonology is the linguistic study of sounds, or phonemes. Bernstein's application of this term to music results in what

EP 2

Musical Syntax

Syntax refers to the study of the structural organization of a sentence, or as Bernstein summarizes, "the actual structu

EP 3

Musical Semantics

Semantics is the study of meaning in language, and Bernstein's third lecture, "musical semantics", accordingly, is Berns

EP 4

The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity

Bernstein provides two distinct meanings of the term ambiguity.

EP 5

The Twentieth Century Crisis

Lecture 5 picks up at the early twentieth century with an oncoming crisis in Western Music. As these lectures have trace

EP 6

The Poetry of Earth

This lecture takes its name from a line in John Keats' poem, "On the Grasshopper and Cricket". Bernstein does not discus

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Leonard Bernstein

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