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• 1. Musical phonology
• 2. Musical syntax
• 3. Musical semantics
• 4. The delights and dangers of ambiguity
• 5. The twentieth century crisis
• 6. The poetry of earth.

Leonard Bernstein discusses various aspects of musical grammar, making analogies between music and linguistics, illustrating his points at the piano and in orchestral works which he conducts; includes a complete performance of Mozart: Symphony no. 40 (Boston Symphony) as well as excerpts from other works.

Leonard Bernstein discusses various aspects of musical phonology, making analogies between music and linguistics, illustrating his points at the piano and in orchestral works which he conducts; includes a complete performance of Mozart: Symphony no. 40 (Boston Symphony).

Leonard Bernstein discusses various aspects of musical syntax and transformation, comparing structures of music and speech, illustrating his points at the piano and in orchestral works which he conducts; includes a segments of Mozart: Symphony no. 40 (Boston Symphony).

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• 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
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• 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
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• 3. Musical semantics (142 min.) Demonstrates layers of meaning in Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F. Major, op. 68
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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.