Leonard Bernstein - "The Unanswered Question" 4. The Delights & Dangers of Ambiguity [1973 at Harvard] Norton Lecture No.4 of 6
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English | No subtitles | 2:23:25 | 640 x 480 | FPS 29.970 | Xvid 1.0.1 | 1.43 GB | WinRar 7% Recovery | RS.com
Audio codec: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3 AC3) | 48000 Hz | 192 kbps CBR | Stereo 2 Channels
One of the most fascinating of all the six Norton Lectures. Bernstein here juggles with Berlioz' Romeo and Juliet and shows us how it was he who set the tonal basis for Wagner to compose his Tristan and Isolde. The analysis of the diminished 7th chord, which has -in this instance- four resolutions but they are all ambiguous and lead us to other tonal possibilities. Bernstein discovers the analogies between Romeo and Juliet and Wagner's Tristan, in this his most enlightened exposition of compositional theory.
Pouting his ambiguity!
In the middle of the lecture, Mr. Bernstein leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Berlioz' Romeo and Juliet and at the end they perform Wagner's Prelude of his great Tristan and Isolde. A memorable 2 hours plus. ENJOY!
The previous lectures can be found in the links below
Musical Semantics Lecture No. 3
Musical Syntax Lecture No. 2
Musical Phonology Lecture No.1