Leonard Bernstein lectures 4: What is Impressionism?
Quiz-Concert: How Musical R.U
Audio Lecture: Music-The Mathematics of Sound and Harmonics.
What is Impressionism? Parts 1-5
Aired date: Dec 1, 1961
Plot: Bernstein focuses on Impressionism in music, discussing the methods (including bi-tonality, whole tone scales, chord extensions, arpeggiation, pentatonic scales and modes) and styles of Debussy and Ravel. He conducts three movements from La Mer and the final dance of Daphnis et Chloe.
Quiz-Concert: How Musical Are You? Parts 1-4
Aired date: May 26, 1968
Plot: Leonard Bernstein quizzes Avery Fisher Hall and television audiences on their musicality. Highlights include true-or-false questions with musical examples, and excerpts from Mozart, Prokofiev and Rimsky-Korsakov.
Music- The mathematics of sound and harmonics:
Music- The mathematics of sound and harmonics:
Audio from a 1959 Leonard Bernstein telecast. Introduction of his own lecture by Bernstein himself. This lecture explains how new music is created from the seemingly finite resources of music’s 12 tones. Gives the maths of 12 tone permutations.The script for this program can be found in the anthology, The Infinite Variety of Music ( http://amzn.to/iCsThe ). The musical examples provided here were created based on the examples that appear in the book. The lecture really gets going at around the 9:00 mark with the exploration of the "How Dry I Am" idea.
Audio from a 1959 Leonard Bernstein telecast. Introduction of his own lecture by Bernstein himself. This lecture explains how new music is created from the seemingly finite resources of music’s 12 tones. Gives the maths of 12 tone permutations.The script for this program can be found in the anthology, The Infinite Variety of Music ( http://amzn.to/iCsThe ). The musical examples provided here were created based on the examples that appear in the book. The lecture really gets going at around the 9:00 mark with the exploration of the "How Dry I Am" idea.