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

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...

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

Milhaud, Germaine Tailleferre, Xavier Montsalvatge, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Walter Piston, Ernst Krenek, Joaquín Rodrigo. Josef Tal's Concerto for Harp and Electronics...

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...

String Quartet No. 4 by Walter Piston is a chamber-music work composed in 1951. Piston's fourth string quartet was commissioned by the Coolidge Foundation...

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...

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

Walter Piston's Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, was written in 1967. It was commissioned for the Hopkins Center Congregation of the Arts at Dartmouth...

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

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. 8 by Walter Piston is a symphony dating from 1965. The Boston Symphony Orchestra commissioned the Eighth Symphony and gave its first...

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:...

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

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Symphony No. 2 by Walter Piston is a symphony composed in 1943. Piston's Second Symphony was commissioned by the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University...

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

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. 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...

String Quartet No. 2 by Walter Piston is a chamber-music work composed in 1935. Piston's second string quartet was composed two years after his First Quartet...

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 professional basketball team based in Detroit. The Pistons compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as...

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...

String Quartet No. 3 by Walter Piston is a chamber-music work composed in 1947. Piston's third string quartet was commissioned by Harvard University and...

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...

Walter Piston's Fantasia for Violin and Orchestra was commissioned in 1970 by Mario di Bonaventura, music director of the Hopkins Center Congregation...

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...

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