The unanswered question

The unanswered question

Leonard Bernstein, 1918-1990

DVD - 1992

Leonard Bernstein examines music from every age and place in the search for a worldwide, innate musical grammar.

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Subjects
Music appreciation.
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music > History and criticism.
Music and language.
Published
West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur c1992.
Language
English
Corporate Authors
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker
Main Author
Leonard Bernstein, 1918-1990 (-)
Corporate Authors
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.) (-), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker
Other Authors
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791 (-), Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827, Hector Berlioz, 1803-1869, Richard Wagner, 1813-1883, Claude Debussy, 1862-1918, Charles Ives, 1874-1954, Maurice Ravel, 1875-1937, Gustav Mahler, 1860-1911, Igor Stravinsky, 1882-1971
Item Description
Videodisc release of the lectures originally filmed at harvard in 1973.
Physical Description
3 v. (DVD) (2 videodiscs per volume) (793 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Format
Dolby digital sound, orchestral performances in stereo.
ISBN
9780769715704
9780769714516
9780769714530
9780769714554
  • v. 1: Lecture 1. Musical phonology (104 min.) Explores the origins and development of music and language, with a performance of Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550 ; Lecture 2. Musical syntax (95 min.) Compares the structures of music and speech, and discusses the multiple transformations of which both are capable, with examples from Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550
  • v. 2: Lecture 3. Musical semantics (142 min.) Demonstrates layers of meaning in Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F. Major, op. 68 ; Lecture 4. The delights and dangers of ambiguity (142 min.) Explorations of new tonal fields by composers of the romantic era. Musical illustrations from Berlioz, Wagner, and Debussy
  • v. 3: Lecture 5. The twentieth century crisis (133 min.) Arnold Schoenberg's movement toward atonality and Gustav Mahler's anticipation of the crisis in twentieth-century music. Includes performances of Ives, Ravel, and Mahler ; Lecture 6. The poetry of earth (177 min.) Examines how Igor Stravinsky kept tonality viable while experimenting freely with dissonance. Includes a complete performance of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex.

This amazing 6 volume DVD explores all types of music, including: folk music, pop songs, symphonies, tonal and atonal works; all taught by legendary master composer and conductor, Leonard Bernstein. Excerpted from The Unanswered Questions: (6 Talks at Harvard with Leonard Bernstein): D1570 All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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