The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax

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The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax (1976)

Directed by Humphrey Burton

“Bernstein at Harvard”

Documentary, Music · 1h 36m

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."

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Cast

Crew

Director
Humphrey Burton

Details

Release date
1976-01-11
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Documentary, Music
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Production
Harvard Productions
Budget
$1,000
Box office
$2,000