Manuscript/Mixed Material Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with emendations in red & black pencil; pages 16-16A revised mimeo on white]
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Image 1 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … REVISED - 11/2/62 LB FINAL NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS #2 6TH SEASON 1962-63 WITH LEONARD BERNSTEIN "WHAT IS A MELODY" Tape Date: Saturday, November 3, 1962 12:00 Noon to 1:00…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 2 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 1 OPENING FILM (WITH SOUND EFFECTS ON TRACK) ANNOUNCER (V.0.) (ON CUE) From Philharmonic Hall in Lincoln Center, home of the world's greatest musical events, the Shell Oil Company brings you the…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 3 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 2 BERNSTEIN What is a Melody? Telecast: December 21, 1962 Leonard Bernstein: [My dear young friends: On our last program we devoted so much time to introducing our new Philharmonic Hall to…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 4 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 3 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) Well, if that's true, then it's almost impossible to write music that doesn't have melody in it. I mean, if a melody is simply one note coming after another,…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 5 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 4 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) You see how simple it is? Where there's music, there's [has to be] melody. You [can't] "cain't" have one without the other. Then why do so many people complain…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 6 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 5 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) ¶ You see, people usually think of [a] melody as a tune, something you can go out whistling, that's easy to remember, that "sticks in your mind." What's more,…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 7 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 6 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) And, [as I hope you remember from our former programs, of every] development is the main thing in symphonic music -- the growing and changing of a melodic seed…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 8 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 7 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) That's the important thing to remember. They're not tunes, but they're themes. [(TO ORK)] Of course, there are symphonic themes that are much more [tuneful] melodious than those. Only…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 9 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 8 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) Well, the same technique works just as well in symphonic themes. For instance, let's just see Tschai[Chai]kovsky went about building up that lovely theme of his by simply repeating…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 10 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 9 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) Here's how it works: first of all, there is a short idea, or phrase: Orchestra: [(ORK)] Ex. 11 [that's number one] [2nd,] second, the same phrase is repeated, but…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 11 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 10 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) [1-2-3] Or, do you know that haunting [tune] theme in the Cesar Franck Symphony? It's the Same thing. First, There's a phrase: [(ORK)] Ex. 17 --then he repeats with…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 12 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 11 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) We've already discovered that what appeals to people most as melody is a fully spun-out tune, [right] and that when they get instead an incomplete tune, or a theme,…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 13 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 12 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) But how wrong they are to say that Wagner doesn't write melody! He writes nothing but melody, only it's melody that's made out of motives. Let me show you…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 14 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 13 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) [Now] That's already much more than a motive, or even of two motives -- it has become what is called a phrase, just as a series of words in…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 15 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 14 TELOP WAGNER PRELUDE FROM "TRISTAN AND ISOLDE" (ORCHESTRA) (APPROX 3:45) (APPLAUSE)- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 16 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 15 BERNSTEIN And on it goes, one long, passionate melody, for almost ten minutes. That sure is a lot of melody for a composer who is supposed to be unmelodic! But, you…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 17 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … LB BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) 16 revised And while that frenzy is going on, the horns and cellos, down lower, are screaming out [that] the first 4-note motive we heard, over and over: Horns…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 18 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) 16A revised ¶ [*Now*] That's a lot of hard stuff we've been discussing so far; and so to make it clearer & easier for you, were going to play you…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 19 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 16 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) And while that frenzy is going on, the horns and cellos, down lower, are screaming out that first 4-note motive, over and over: (ORK - Hns 1 & 3…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 20 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 17 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) First, there's a phrase - - [(PLAY)] Piano: Ex. 32 --second, he repeats the same phrase, slightly [altered:] lower: [(PLAY)] Ex. 33 and, third, the take-off: [(PLAY)] Ex. 34…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 21 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 18 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) But you're ready now to understand that even those places are melodic, as much as the [opening] main theme is if you just listen to them correctly. For instance,…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 22 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 19 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) And that's all made out of those first little 2 notes! [that I played for you before.] So you see, it's all pure melody, even the development parts. The…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 23 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 20 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) Here's one place you should be on the lookout for, where again the little motive is being developed on top, over [stationary] motionless notes on the bottom: [(ORK -…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 24 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 21 TELOP MOZART SYMPHONY #40, IN G MINOR FIRST MOVEMENT (ORCHESTRA) (APRROX. 6:00) (APPLAUSE) ANNOUNCER: Now here to speak for Shell Oil Company, its President, Monroe E. Spaght.- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 25 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 22 COMMERCIAL (6:00)- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 26 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 23 STATION IDENTIFICATION- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 27 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 24 BERNSTEIN [* good *] [Now, The title of this program is] Our main question has been "what is a melody?" Well, what is it? Have we found out yet? Any series…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 28 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 25 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) OK --but [so] what happens when we hear melodies that don't repeat at all, that just weave on and on, always new? [Well,] It's true that we usually like…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 29 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) [(V.O.)] And so it goes [on] weaving on, spinning out that long golden thread, never once repeating itself for almost five minutes. Do you find it wandery and aimless?] I…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 30 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 27 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) The melodies people loved in Beethoven's time would have shocked and startled the people of Bach's time, [100] one hundred years earlier, and I'm equally sure that some of…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 31 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 28 TELOP HINDEMITH CONCERT MUSIC FOR STRINGS AND BRASS (ORCHESTRA) (APPROX. 4:00) (APPLAUSE)- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 32 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 29 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) [(TO PIANO)] ¶ [Now] [Well,] Whether you like that or not, that is a great melodic line, four minutes of beautiful curves, arches, peaks and valleys. And if there…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 33 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 30 BERNSTEING (CONT'D) [* [(added ad lib - goof)] *] -- plus two notes to finish it off: [(play)] Ex. 48 [8] eight notes in all, one to a bar: [(PLAY WITH…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 34 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 31 TELOP BRAHMS SYMPHONY NO. 4 IN E MINOR FINALE (ORCHESTRA) (APPROX. 10:30) (The orchestra finished the program with a rendering of the Finale of Brahms Symphony No. 4.) (APPLAUSE)- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 35 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [typescript on blue paper with … 32 ANNOUNCER (V.O.) From Philharmonic Hall in Lincoln Center -- another NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERT under the musical direction of Leonard Bernstein has been presented by the Shell Oil Company.…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962