附註:"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."
Publisher's no.: 1451-1456; 1570 (set).
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Lecture I. 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 II. 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 III. Musical semantics (142 min.) Demonstrates layers of meaning in Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F Major, op. 68 -- Lecture IV. 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 V. The twentieth-century crisis (133 min.) Armond 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 VI. The Poetry of earth (177 mins.) Examines how Igor Stravinsky kept tonality viable while experimenting freely with dissonance. Includes a complete performance of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex.
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摘要:Renowned conductor and musician Leonard Bernstein, in six lectures on music, compares his theory of a universal musical grammar to the universal grammar underlying speech in the science of linguistics. Includes musical illustrations played on the piano or conducted by the maestro.
