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Additional authors

1. Boston Symphony Orchestra. prf
2. Wiener Philharmoniker. prf
3. Harvard Glee Club.
4. Kultur International Films.

Description

1. 6 videocassettes (VHS) (793 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. Examines music from every age and place in the search for a worldwide, innate musical grammar.

Alternative title

1. Six talks at Harvard.
2. Musical phonology.
3. Musical syntax.
4. Musical semantics.
5. Delights and dangers of ambiguity.
6. Twentiety century crisis.
7. Poetry of earth.

Subject

1. Music > History and criticism
2. Music and language

Genre/Form

1. Video.

Contents

1. 1. Musical phonology -- 2. Musical syntax -- 3. Musical semantics -- 4. The delights and dangers of ambiguity -- 5. The twentiety century crisis -- 6. The poetry of earth.

Call number

1. *LVH 738

Note

1. Title from container.
2. "Originally produced by Amberson Video in cooperation with WGBH-TV Boston, 1973."
3. "Written and delivered when Leonard Bernstein was Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University, with performances by Mr. Bernstein, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Vienna Philharmonic."

Credits (note)

1. Written by Leonard Bernstein; producer, Douglas Smith.

Performer (note)

1. Leonard Bernstein.

Author

1. Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990.

Title

1. The unanswered question [videorecording] : six talks at Harvard / by Leonard Bernstein.

Imprint

1. W. Long Branch, N.J. : Kultur, c1992.

Performer

1. Leonard Bernstein.
2. Boston Symphony Orchestra ; Vienna Philharmonic ; Harvard Glee Club.

Credits

1. Written by Leonard Bernstein; producer, Douglas Smith.

Added author

1. Boston Symphony Orchestra. Performer
2. Wiener Philharmoniker. Performer
3. Harvard Glee Club.
4. Kultur International Films.

Added title

1. Six talks at Harvard.
2. Musical phonology.
3. Musical syntax.
4. Musical semantics.
5. Delights and dangers of ambiguity.
6. Twentiety century crisis.
7. Poetry of earth.

Research call number

1. *LVH 738