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The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics (1976)
Directed by Humphrey Burton
“Bernstein at Harvard”
Documentary, Music · 2h 23m
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:Semantics is the study of meaning in language, and Bernstein's third lecture, "musical semantics", accordingly, is Bernstein's first attempt to explain meaning in music. Although Bernstein defines musical semantics as "meaning, both musical and extramusical" this lecture focuses exclusively on the "musical" version of meaning.
Cast
Leonard Bernstein
Crew
- Director
- Humphrey Burton
Details
- Release date
- 1976-01-11
- Runtime
- 2h 23m
- Genres
- Documentary, Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Harvard Productions
- Budget
- $1,000
- Box office
- $2,000