The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard

BERNSTEIN, Leonard

ISBN 10: 0674920007 / ISBN 13: 9780674920002

Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1976

About this Item

Illustrated with photos and musical quotations throughout. 428 page book, housed together in a printed board slipcase with 3 records (33-1/3). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, (1976). First edition, first printing. Very minor wear to slipcase but overall near fine with all 3 records appearing to be in clean and in their original paper sleeves. Inscribed by Bernstein on the front endpaper: "For Ira Friedman - Leonard Bernstein".

Seller Inventory # 326247

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674920007
• ISBN 13: 9780674920002
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First.
• Condition: near fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • MUSIC

About this title

Synopsis

This 424 page book contains six lectures Leonard Bernstein gave at Harvard University as part of The Charles Eliot Notron Lecture Series. "In these lectures, Mr. Bernstein considers music ranging from Hindu ragas through Mozart and Ravel, to Copland, suggesting a worldwide, innate musical grammar. Folk music, pop songs, symphonies, modal, tonal, atonal, well-tempered and ill-tempered works all find a place in these discussions. Each, Mr. Berstein suggests, has roots in a universal language central to all artistic creation."

From the Back Cover

Leonard Bernstein's Norton Lectures on the future course of music drew cheers from his Harvard audiences and television viewers. In this re-creation of his talks, the author considers music ranging from Hindu ragas through Mozart and Ravel to Copland, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky.