The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

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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."