The Unanswered Question 1973 1 Musical Phonology Bernstein Norton

[pedromillion]

Brilliant! Thank you so much for uploading!

[cagin]

@pedromillion Ur welcome, enjoy, best :)

[Asagtr]

this is a treasure. amazing. thanks for sharing this.

[cagin]

@Asagtr Ur welcome, enjoy, best ! :)

[azkeyz]

well , I knew it to be true that there is a ( can't tell you this word ) .

I know what that ( censored word ) is , and I'm not tellin anybody , because I don't feel like gettin killed by the cia today.

the raga is bad grammar to my brain because the units are not understood and even dispised because I only love daddy bach.

[yourcasketwaits4u]

That band crushed! "What a piece" indeed! Where can I find just the last song the band played please? Thanks 4 uploading! Great vid!

[yourcasketwaits4u]

Excellent!

[drmarmy]

he finds the camera so awkward its hilarious

[tyniehawk]

bro love makes music too. cool.

[greatbighand]

Brilliant (as usual) when showing the structure of Mozart's Symphony. Still I would have liked to ask him why all the discussion on the common origin of language if then he passes to discuss the music as based on physics. I probably lost him there but I don't think he makes the connection very clear. That it is a basic point he hinted at when, in another interview, he said that atonality not having a basis in human speech had no musical validity. Thanx anyway for posting this.

[cagin]

@greatbighand Ur welcome and thank you very much for this comment. Long 've been since last time I've watched this so I can not remember the part that you point but I am interested in that interview during which he said 'atonality not having a basis in human speech had no musical validity'. Could you give a reference for it? Is it a video or article? Thank you very much in advance. U can reply as private message also, if you like to send some internet link.

[greatbighand]

@cagin Hi. I can't remember if he said exactly that, though I seem to remember that the topic was why he had ended up refusing atonality. But I remember that he declared there was a direct connection between human speech and tonality. The interview was in a documentary (dubbed) I presume it was made after his Beethoven series with Schell. It was aired and maybe it still is on some local tv here in Rome (but I am not watching TV at all nowadays).

[greatbighand]

@greatbighand I wouldn't bet on it but examining the filmography at IMDB it could be The Love of Three Orchestras (1984), as I vaguely remember there was a concert in Israel.

[TreyRoque]

@greatbighand The answer to your question is at 41:48. I guess, in short, LB means we have created music based on how our ears differentiate noise from tones.

Still, I wish my music teachers had tried revealing this to us. Mostly, we got 'minor chords are sda, major chords happy' discourse. Megameh.

[jubeliwera]

Thank you so much!

[cagin]

@jubeliwera Ur welcome, enjoy, best :)

[mercex]

@cagin, you're going right into my youtube hall of fame for this. Thank you so very much! Grazie mille! Vielen dank! Merci beaucoup! ¡Muchísimas gracias!

[cagin]

@mercex Ahaha Thank you very much for this flattering comment and I am so honored with it. I am glad that you enjoyed the videos. Ur welcome, enjoy, best :)

[jthenson88]

Honestly, who came across this brilliant series and had the audacity to dislike it?

[thenamesfrancisco]

@jthenson88 probably someone accidently clicked dislike

[Crudblud89]

I like the simplicity of the lecture, even though it's aimed at music students I was able to pick it up with next to no knowledge of music theory. A testament to my intelligence or to Lenny's brilliance? I think the latter.

[doffdoff]

Thank you so much for uploading this!

[cagin]

@doffdoff Ur welcome, enjoy, best :)

[nthionius]

Bernstein is awesome!

[stonemanrichard]

I saw this broadcast as a series on the BBC twenty or thirty years ago and have never forgotten it.

Thanks for the upload !

[cagin]

@stonemanrichard Ur welcome, enjoy, best :)

[violadude0987]

What an incredible man. The world lost a lot when he died.

[SEVENTHSON89]

Omfg! thank You a lot!

[cagin]

@SEVENTHSON89 Ur welcome, enjoy, best :)

[bpvirgo]

Thank you so much for uploading this, I haven't seen it for decades and always remembered it as a high point of television.

[cagin]

@bpvirgo Ur welcome, enjoy, best :)

[aedo67]

Amazing.

[666patrickbateman666]

At last on Youtube

Thanks to the uploader !

[cagin]

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[666patrickbateman666]

@cagin

@cagin

I watched this on BBC in the eighties but I missed the beginning.

Now I can see the entire program from the beginning .

This is the absolute best I've ever seen on TV

thank you

[jvdowsett]

Absolute genius. Thank you for posting this. Bernstein is my hero.

[C0urante]

6:30

He forgot to mention Shostakovich's signature--D Eb C B, or D S C H. It's played by the cello at the beginning of his String Quartet No. 8 in C minor.

[IndyMusicNYC]

stop rubbing your nose!!

[iTzNoxy]

Hearing the breakdown and analysis of the chromaticism in Mozart's 40th was quite enlightening and thoroughly fascinating. The man was no doubt a genius of his time. There's a lot to be learned from all these great composers of yesteryear. We modern-day musicians should be thankful we get to be students of such great men.

[cagin]

@iTzNoxy apart from the chromaticism in his 40th symphony, I was also very much impressed when I first heard about his polytonal achievements like the ball scene at the end of the 1st act of Don Giovanni [where he combines 2 different dances by 3 different orchestras all at the same time ! ] and at certain movements of a lesser knows but fascinating work divertimento k 522. pls check out the related wikipedia page for the latter work. Best.

[Dudizmi]

Thank you soooo much!!! Unbelievable, Bernstein, my hero!!! ((( “Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable )))

[cagin]

@Dudizmi I admire him very much also. Ur welcome :) Enjoy, best.

[MartinVejarano]

THANK YOU for posting and sharing these lectures with us!!! It has been years of anxious waiting :) Muchas Gracias!!!!!

[cagin]

@MartinVejarano De nada ! Muito prazer. Enjoy, best :)

[melodiez001]

Thank you so much.

[cagin]

@melodiez001 ur welcome, enjoy, best.

[fznbaritone]

He is so eloquent! I could listen to him all day. He speaks in music. hahaha

[mightyafrowhitey]

Never thought I'd hear Bernstein talk about Chomsky!!! I remember checking this out on vinyl back when I was in highschool. It's cool to hear it now since I'm a lot more knowledgeable about this stuff.

[vknfuj]

You're a badass. Thank you.

[cagin]

@vknfuj :) Ur welcome, enjoy, best.

[igorula]

@cagin You're my hero for uploading this! Can't thank you enough! :-)

Damn there goes my evening! ;-)

[cagin]

@igorula  :) Ur welcome, enjoy, best.

[daonap]

I´ve been searching for this series a long, long time. Thank you so much, cagin.

[cagin]

@daonap Ur welcome, enjoy, best.

[Milky111wtf]

*with the

[Milky111wtf]

I'm not a flutist but it looks like that flutist has her flute at a strange angle. Hm. I guess it doesn't matter because she's playing the the Boston Symphony.

[AnAmericanInMexico]

Thank you, thank you, thank you @cagin!!!!!

[cagin]

@AnAmericanInMexico ur welcome, enjoy. best.

[HelicopterRedFlag]

Bernstein is such an amusing mix of polished and unpolished

[cagin]

@HelicopterRedFlag well said !

[ryan262]

this man is decoding the very nature of music itself

[cagin]

@ryan262 He seems (and actually IS) so intellectual that had he had enough time, he probably would decode the whole meaning of life.

[colourfulwithaU]

Where curiosity and brilliance and elegance meet musical understanding, there is Leonard Bernstein.

[munkybrain]

those intervals that bernstein talks about at around 0:27:00, those based around scale degrees 3, 6, 5, comletely saturate mahler's forth symphony, which is about a child's view of heaven. now if you've been paying attention you should find that very interesting :-)

[munkybrain]

i cannot believe this has been posted. hours of fun and intrigue await me

[Conductorprod92]

i put them all in one playlist on my channel. thank you @cagin for posting!

[cagin]

@Conductorprod92 ur welcome, enjoy. best.

[arash402003]

can't thank you enough for posting!!!!

[cagin]

@arash402003 ur welcome, enjoy. best.

[bob32f32]

thank you so much for posting this! I have been waiting all these years to see these again...I am thrilled!

[cagin]

@bob32f32 ur welcome, enjoy. best. 

[Boldstrummer]

Thanks so much for posting this. The music education of music in this country has fallen quite a bit since this was aired. Finally to hear Lennie's depth of understanding is wonderful.

[cagin]

@Boldstrummer Your welcome, I hope u enjoy it, best.

[audioliquor]

@Boldstrummer "The music education of music in this country has fallen quite a bit since this was aired. " how do you mean? do you think that college kids are not giving this kind of quality lectures? do you mean that public schools do not have good music programs? my questions are not meant to be accusative. i just wonder what in your personal experiences got you to say that. would you care to elaborate?

[colourfulwithaU]

@Boldstrummer

"The music education of music in this country has fallen quite a bit since this was aired."

I assume you mean America. Well, I go to music school in Canada, and we have many students from the States who are here for graduate degrees, and they all seem to know their stuff very well.

[IndyMusicNYC]

@colourfulwithaU those are the music majors,, but there is very little, if any, general music education in US public schools

[maxreger100]

This is such a joy to be able to experience. A 1000 times thank you @cagin.

510 views in 6 weeks. Not the millions who watch reality TV or a cat "playing" the piano, but food for creative thought and great inspiration to some of us.

And what a joy to see the Boston Symphony at this era--with the great clarinetist Harold Wright.

[cagin]

@maxreger100

I am happy that u enjoyed it. No need to count what others watch and for how many times. (still might me interesting to check the most watched video in youtube, amazing ! :) )

Lenny was a great man. His approach to things are enlightening.

[madlovba2]

Thank you very much for uploading this series of lectures, it's very interesting. As for Bernstein, if someone is genius in one thing, he's genius in everything.

[cagin]

@madlovba2 ur welcome, i agree about his genius. He starts to talk about a certain piece of music and connects it to many other disciplines so easily and naturally and moreover, concretely. Enjoy !