The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax

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."

Average Score : 90

Bernstein at Harvard

Status: Released

Release Date: 1976-01-11

Geners Documentary Music

Production Companies Harvard Productions

Production Countries

Run time: 96 minutes

Budget: $1,000

Revenue: $2,000