The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax (1976)

Bernstein at Harvard

• Documentary
• Music

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."

Rating

9 / 10 (1 votes)

Release date

January 11, 1976

Runtime

1h 36m

Language

English

Director

Humphrey Burton

Status

Released