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Bernstein, Leonard 1918-1990(Author).
Smith, Douglas(Added Author). Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 Symphonies, K. 550, G minor(Added Author). ... Read More

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Record details

  • ISBN: 0769714552 (lectures 5-6)
  • ISBN: 0769714536 (lectures 3-4)
  • ISBN: 076971451X (lectures 1-2)
  • ISBN: 0769715702
  • Physical Description: 6 videodiscs (793 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
    videodisc
    videorecording
  • Publisher: West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, [2001?], c1992.

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Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Creation/Production Credits Note: Producer, Douglas Smith ; written by Leonard Bernstein.
Participant or Performer Note: Boston Symphony Orchestra ; Vienna Philharmonic (in lecture 5) ; Leonard Bernstein, conductor.
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Lectures recorded by Amberson Video in cooperation ... Read More
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