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The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology (1976)

The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology (1976)

Music Documentary

Bernstein at Harvard

Release Date: 1976, January 11
Directors: Humphrey Burton
Countries: United States of America
Production: Harvard Productions

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".

Keywords:

philosophy music linguistics harvard university classical music noam chomsky lecture leonard bernstein music theory bernstein