(The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax)

Content: 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."

Countries:

Genres:

Documentary,

Music

Runtime:

96 minutes

Year:

1976

Directors:

Humphrey Burton

Production companies:

Harvard Productions

Budget:

$1,000

Revenue:

$2,000

Actors:

Himself

Crews:

Director