(The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics)

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: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.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Documentary,

Music

Runtime:

143 minutes

Year:

1976

Directors:

Humphrey Burton

Production companies:

Harvard Productions

Budget:

$1,000

Revenue:

$2,000

Actors:

Himself

Crews:

Director