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Humor in music ; What is a melody? / presented by Video Music Education, Inc. ; New York Philharmonic with Leonard Bernstein ; produced and directed by Roger Englander ; script by Leonard Bernstein.
LIBRA Music Videorecording 58
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humorous music.
- Counterpoint.
- Melody.
- Orchestral music--Analysis, appreciation.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- What is a melody?
- Leonard Bernstein's young people's concerts with the New York Philharmonic.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York?] : Sony Classical : Video Music Education, Inc., [1993]
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- mono
- VHS
- Summary:
- "Humor in Music": Music is shown to be funny through imitating nature, sudden pauses, abrupt louds or softs and musical puns. Includes excerpts from Symphony no. 88 (Haydn), Classical Symphony (Prokofieff), Symphony no. 1 (Mahler), "Polka" from The golden age (Shostakovich), Music for the theatre (Copland), Symphony no. 4 (Brahms) and from works by Piston, Paul White, G. Gershwin, Mozart, Kodály, Wagner and Richard Strauss.
- "What is a melody": How are fragments of tunes woven into melody and simultaneous melodies used to create counterpoint? Includes excerpts from Prelude to Tristan und Isolde (Wagner), Symphony no. 40 (Mozart), Concert music for strings and bass (Hindemith), and Symphony no. 4 (Brahms).
- Notes:
- Title on cassette label: Leonard Bernstein's young people's concerts with the New York Philharmonic.
- "A presentation of the Leonard Bernstein Society, New York"--Case.
- First title originally broadcast Feb. 28, 1959, the second title Dec. 21, 1962, both on CBS Television.
- OCLC:
- 29457806
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