Movie Details
Movie Budget:$1,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$2,000 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Harvard Productions
The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology
Movie"Bernstein at Harvard"
Audience Score
1 hr 45 minDocumentary,
Music
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: Phonology is the linguistic study of sounds, or phonemes. Bernstein's application of this term to music results in what he calls "musical phonology".
StarringLeonard Bernstein
DirectorHumphrey Burton
