• 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...
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  • 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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    Essential Dictionary of Musical Notation, Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., p.36 Walter Piston, Orchestration, W.W. Norton & Company: 1955, p. 20 James Mark Jordan...
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  • 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...
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  • in musicology from Cornell University, where he wrote his thesis, "Walter Piston and His Music", under the supervision of William Austin. He also studied...
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    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:...
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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...
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  • 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...
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    major seventh, thus considered a chord tone in such context. However, Walter Piston, writing in 1952, considered that, "a true thirteenth chord, arrived...
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  • (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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    A fire piston, sometimes called a fire syringe or a slam rod fire starter, is a device of ancient Southeast Asian origin which is used to kindle fire....
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    Cello Playing, Edition Spangenberg, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-89409-063-4. Walter Piston (1955), Orchestration, W. W. Norton, 55. Ludwig van Beethoven, ed. Elliot...
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    with Walter Spalding, counterpoint with Edward Ballantine, canon and fugue with William C. Heilman, orchestration with Edward B. Hill and Walter Piston, composition...
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  • 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...
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    arrays of chords related to one another by different types of symmetry Walter Piston Steve Reich, who described them in an interview as "the greatest set...
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    de Musique; his pupils included Maurice Duruflé, Olivier Messiaen, Walter Piston, Manuel Ponce, Joaquín Rodrigo and Xian Xinghai. Dukas was born in Paris...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • String Quartet No. 1 by Walter Piston is a chamber-music work composed in 1933. Piston's first string quartet was premiered on March 7, 1933, by the Chardon...
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    The Detroit Pistons are an American professional basketball team based in Detroit. The Pistons compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as...
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