The Unanswered Question - Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein(1976)
First Air Date: 1976-01-11
Average Runtime: 13h 13m
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Seasons: 1
Episodes: 6
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.
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 6E01
Musical Phonology
Air Date: 1976-01-11
Phonology is the linguistic study of sounds, or phonemes. Bernstein's application of this term to music results in wh...
E02
Musical Syntax
Air Date: 1976-01-18
Syntax refers to the study of the structural organization of a sentence, or as Bernstein summarizes, "the actual stru...
E03
Musical Semantics
Air Date: 1976-01-25
Semantics is the study of meaning in language, and Bernstein's third lecture, "musical semantics", accordingly, is Be...
E04
The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
Air Date: 1976-02-01
Bernstein provides two distinct meanings of the term ambiguity.
E05
The Twentieth Century Crisis
Air Date: 1976-02-08
Lecture 5 picks up at the early twentieth century with an oncoming crisis in Western Music. As these lectures have tr...
E06
The Poetry of Earth
Air Date: 1976-02-15
This lecture takes its name from a line in John Keats' poem, "On the Grasshopper and Cricket". Bernstein does not dis...
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