Young People’s Concert: “What is a Mode?”
with the New York Philharmonic
Written and conducted by Leonard Bernstein
Introduction by John Lithgow
Leonard Bernstein discusses scales, intervals, and tones, and analyzes several pieces, including Debussy’s “Fêtes”, Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade”, and music from the Kinks and the Beatles, to illustrate different modes. An excerpt from Bernstein’s ballet “Fancy Free” is also performed.
In this excerpt, Bernstein discusses the Mixolydian mode.
Original CBS Television Network Broadcast Dates: 23 November 1966
Produced and directed by Roger Englander
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