Walter Hamor Piston, Jr. (January 20, 1894 – November 12, 1976), was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at...

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where he studied music with, among others, Edward Burlingame Hill and Walter Piston. Bernstein's first extant composition, Psalm 148, set for voice and...

Essential Dictionary of Musical Notation, Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., p.36 Walter Piston, Orchestration, W.W. Norton & Company: 1955, p. 20 James Mark Jordan...

Sowerby, The Canticle of the Sun 1947: Charles Ives, Symphony No. 3 1948: Walter Piston, Symphony No. 3 1949: Virgil Thomson, Louisiana Story, film score 1950:...

sulla serie dell’op. 41 di A. Schönberg, for chamber orchestra (1950) Walter Piston Chromatic Study on the Name of Bach, for organ Concerto for Clarinet...

rhythm that depends on changes in aspects of harmony." According to Walter Piston (1944), "the rhythmic life contributed to music by means of the underlying...

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harmony...has become one of the platitudes of the "Hollywood Style." — Walter Piston The composer Olivier Messiaen called the whole-tone scale his first...

major seventh, thus considered a chord tone in such context. However, Walter Piston, writing in 1952, considered that, "a true thirteenth chord, arrived...

in musicology from Cornell University, where he wrote his thesis, "Walter Piston and His Music", under the supervision of William Austin. He also studied...

The Symphony No. 5 by Walter Piston was composed in 1954. Piston's Fifth Symphony was commissioned by the Juilliard School of Music on the occasion of...

with Walter Spalding, counterpoint with Edward Ballantine, canon and fugue with William C. Heilman, orchestration with Edward B. Hill and Walter Piston, composition...

The Symphony No. 6 by Walter Piston was completed in 1955. Piston composed the symphony to mark the 75th Anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...

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The Symphony No. 8 by Walter Piston is a symphony dating from 1965. The Boston Symphony Orchestra commissioned the Eighth Symphony and gave its first...

Cello Playing, Edition Spangenberg, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-89409-063-4. Walter Piston (1955), Orchestration, W. W. Norton, 55. Ludwig van Beethoven, ed. Elliot...

Symphony No. 3 by Walter Piston was composed in 1946–47. The Koussevitzky Music Foundation commissioned the Third Symphony and Piston began work on it...

The Symphony No. 4 by Walter Piston is a symphony dating from 1950. Piston composed his Fourth Symphony on commission from the University of Minnesota...

Walter Piston's Serenata for Orchestra is an orchestral suite or miniature symphony written in 1956. Piston composed the Serenata in 1956, on commission...

chord is a seventh chord built on the seventh scale degree (viiø7). Walter Piston considers and notates viio as V0 7, an incomplete dominant seventh chord...

Orchestra (1966) by Walter Piston; Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (1967) by Walter Piston; Ricercare for Orchestra (1967) by Walter Piston". Notes, second...

de Musique; his pupils included Maurice Duruflé, Olivier Messiaen, Walter Piston, Manuel Ponce, Joaquín Rodrigo and Xian Xinghai. Dukas was born in Paris...

The Detroit Pistons are an American basketball team based in Detroit. The Pistons compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of...

(Penderecki) (Korean) by Krzysztof Penderecki, 1991–92 Symphony No. 5 (Piston) by Walter Piston, 1954 Symphony No. 5 (Prokofiev) in B-flat major (Op. 100) by Sergei...

The Symphony No. 1 by Walter Piston was completed in 1937. By the time Piston finished his first symphony, he was 43 years old. It was premiered on April...

impossible to designate a piece as being in one key or another". Composer Walter Piston, on the other hand, said that, out of long habit, whenever performers...

in his "Problems of Pitch Organization in Stravinsky". According to Walter Piston, "the idea of a unified classical tonality replaced by nonclassical...

pitches in order upward or downward, one octave's worth after another. — Walter Piston (1987) A chromatic scale is a nondiatonic scale consisting entirely...

Copland, Ernst Krenek, György Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, Arvo Pärt, Walter Piston, Ned Rorem, Alfred Schnittke, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Dmitri Shostakovich...