| Description |
6 videodiscs (793 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
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polychrome |
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digital |
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optical |
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stereo |
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Dolby |
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video file |
| System Details |
DVD video; Dolby digital sound, orchestral performances in stereo. |
| Note |
Cover title. |
| Performer |
Boston Symphony Orchestra ; Vienna Philharmonic (in lecture 5) ; Leonard Bernstein, conductor. |
| Event |
Lectures recorded by Amberson Video in cooperation with WGBH, Boston at Harvard University, 1973. |
| Summary |
In these lectures Leonard Bernstein examines music from every age and place in the search for a worldwide, innate musical grammar. Includes performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic. |
| Contents |
Lecture 1. Musical phonology (104 min.): Explores the origins and development of music and language, with a performance of Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550 -- Lecture 2. Musical syntax (95 min.): Compares the structures of music and speech, and discusses the multiple transformations of which both are capable, with examples from Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550 -- Lecture 3. Musical semantics (142 min.): Demonstrates layers of meaning in Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F. Major, op. 68 -- Lecture 4. The delights and dangers of ambiguity (142 min.): Explorations of new tonal fields by composers of the romantic era; musical illustrations from Berlioz, Wagner, and Debussy -- Lecture 5. The twentieth century crisis (133 min.): Arnold Schoenberg's movement toward atonality and Gustav Mahler's anticipation of the crisis in twentieth-century music; includes performances of Ives, Ravel, and Mahler -- Lecture 6. The poetry of earth (177 min.): Examines how Igor Stravinsky kept tonality viable while experimenting freely with dissonance; includes a complete performance of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex. |
| Credits |
Producer, Douglas Smith ; written by Leonard Bernstein. |
| Subject |
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. |
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Music -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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Music appreciation.
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Music appreciation. |
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Music and language.
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Music and language. |
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Lectures.
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Lectures.
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Filmed performances.
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Filmed performances.
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Nonfiction films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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| Added Author |
Smith, Douglas, producer.
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Santee, Clark, director.
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
Symphonies, K. 550, G minor.
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Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
Symphonies, no. 6, op. 68, F major.
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Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869.
Roméo et Juliette. Selections.
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Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.
Tristan und Isolde. Selections.
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Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918.
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.
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Ives, Charles, 1874-1954.
Contemplations. Unanswered question.
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Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937.
Rapsodie espagnole. Feria.
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Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911.
Symphonies, no. 9. Selections.
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Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.
Oedipus Rex.
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Amberson Productions.
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WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
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Boston Symphony Orchestra, performer.
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Wiener Philharmoniker, performer.
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Kultur International Films.
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| Added Title |
Unanswered question : Norton lectures 1973 |
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Six talks at Harvard |
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Leonard Bernstein at Harvard |
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Norton lectures 1973 |
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Charles Eliot Norton lectures.
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| ISBN |
0769715702 |
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9780769715704 |
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076971451X lectures 1-2 |
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9780769714516 lectures 1-2 |
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0769714536 lectures 3-4 |
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9780769714530 lectures 3-4 |
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0769714552 lectures 5-6 |
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9780769714554 lectures 5-6 |
| Standard No. |
032031157095 |
| Music No. |
D1570 (D1451, D1453, D1455) Kultur |
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D1570-1--D1570-6 Kultur |
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