The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics (1976)

ALL 01/11/1976 (en) Documentary, Music 143 Min
  • Release
    01/11/1976
  • Production
    Harvard Productions
  • Rotten tomato
    90%
  • Original title
    The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 2,000.00
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Bernstein at Harvard

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: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.

  1. Humphrey Burton

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics (1976) 143 Min

ALL 01/11/1976 (en)
Documentary, Music
  • Release 01/11/1976
  • Production
    Harvard Productions
  • Original title The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics
  • en
  • Revenue2,000.00

Bernstein at Harvard

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: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.

  1. Humphrey Burton

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer