The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology backdrop
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The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology

Bernstein at Harvard

9.0/10(2)
1976
105 min
DocumentaryMusic

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: Phonology is the linguistic study of sounds, or phonemes. Bernstein's application of this term to music results in what he calls "musical phonology".

Production

Harvard Productions

Cast & Characters

Leonard Bernstein

Himself

Directors & Crew

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Humphrey Burton

Director

Screenshots & Stills

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