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I strongly urge people to skip this and not keep suggesting it. It amounts to Bernstein being an outlier in bothering to even ask questions in the right directi
by quadrangle 5y ago
I strongly urge people to skip this and not keep suggesting it. It amounts to Bernstein being an outlier in bothering to even ask questions in the right direction while few others were doing so, and he gives lots of erroneous and speculative answers based on having no access to the rest of ethnomusicology and music cognition and other understandings that have developed in the decades since.
- jacquesm 5y agoI'd be very happy to be stuck at his level though.
- quadrangle 5y agoBernstein was amazing indeed. But if he were alive today, he'd probably have more ready access to music psychology and ethnomusicology perspectives and more readily get feedback from people who have answers to the questions he's posing. I'd share with people anything from Bernstein otherwise, but for music theory, these particular lectures are not what I'd recommend sharing.