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The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax

The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 11, 1976

Runtime

1h 36m

Genres

Documentary, Music

User Score

90%

Original Title

The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax

Production Companies

Harvard Productions

Director

Humphrey Burton

Budget

$1,000

Revenue

$2,000

Description

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."