The unanswered question
by Leonard Bernstein · first published 1976
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…Scale, all of which belong to either the I or IV chord. The I and IV chords use, by definition, an interval of 1-4-7. For an entertaining overview, check out Leonard Bernstein's 1973 Norton lectures, "The Unanswered Question"[0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFjonLo8gYHIXC35K4Ujr...
on “Show HN: Ten Steps to an Algorithmic Song” ↗…describe in natural language? If you want to go really deep into the philosophy of music, to understand it from "first principles" so to speak, I highly recommend Leonard Bernstein's lecture series "The Unanswered Question" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unanswered_Question_(lectu... (available on YouTube). To paraphrase Bernstein's comment from his book "The Joy of Music": we need to stop comparing Beethoven to grassy…
on “Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first encountered them?” ↗The Unanswered Question by Leonard Bernstein (very famous conductor) was super fun in my opinion. https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKiz0UZowP2V0mwtNv1lc1_...
on “Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've ever seen?” ↗Leonard Bernstein, "The Unanswered Question" https://leonardbernstein.com/about/educator/norton-lectures Also, see his talks for young people: https://leonardbernstein.com/lectures/television-scripts/you...
on “Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've ever seen?” ↗It was published as a book I believe: https://www.amazon.com/Unanswered-Question-Harvard-Charles-L... It's about music though so it's good to listen to it if possible.
on “Leonard Bernstein – The Unanswered Question [video]” ↗…a book I recommend that is a compilation of most of Glenn Goulds letters, they are incredibly beautifully worded. Bernstein helped motivate me towards classical piano more than anyone. Watch his "The Unanswered Question" series as well.
on “Leonard Bernstein invented how we do modern classical music” ↗…lacking: there's a hint at the minor third's use in schoolyard songs, a quintessential reference to the overtone series (the God of the gaps of armchair music theorists!) an appeal to Bernstein's The Unanswered Question (which is, sadly, for all its visionarity, bordering on irrelevance in the light of the intervening four decades of research on music perception), the quintessential appeal to the overtone series). There…
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