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The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax

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The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax

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."

Orignal Language

en

Duration

96 minutes

Genre

Documentary, Music

Status

Released

Release Data

1976-01-11

Budget

$1000

Revenue

$2000

Production Companies

Harvard Productions

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