PISTON, WALTER

1894–1976, American composer and teacher, b. Rockland, Maine. Piston studied at Harvard and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris; he joined the faculty of Harvard in 1926. He became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1934. Piston was a neoclassicist composer, using traditional forms with sure technique and intellectual style. His works often incorporate masterful counterpoint and employ complex jazz rhythms. Piston's compositions include symphonies, suites for orchestra, a concertino for piano and orchestra, a violin concerto, a viola concerto, a toccata and a concerto for orchestra, a ballet, and string quartets and other chamber music. He is the author of Principles of Harmonic Analysis (1933), Harmony (1941, rev. ed. 1962), Counterpoint (1947), and Orchestration (1955).

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books on: Piston Walter  - 1106 results

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The Letters of Sir Walter Raleigh (1879-1922)
Book by Lady Raleigh, Walter Alexander Raleigh; The Macmillan Company, 1926
Subjects: Explorers--Great Britain--Correspondence, Raleigh, Walter--Sir--1552?-1618--Correspondence
THE LETTERS OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH 1879-1922 VOLUME II -ii- SIR WALTER RALEIGH, TAKEN AT BURFORD PRIORY THE LETTERS OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH 1879-1922 EDITED BY LADY RALEIGH WITH A PREFACE B DAVID NICHOL SMITH GOLDSMITHS READER...
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Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere
Book by Erik Ryding, Rebecca Pechefsky; University of Nebraska Press, 2006
Subjects: Conductors (Music)--Biography, Walter, Bruno--1876-1962
Bruno Walter A WORLD ELSEWHERE Erik Ryding and Rebecca...paperback printing: zoo6 Frontispiece: Bruno Walter (ca. 1911). Courtesy of Osterreichisches...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ryding, Erik, i953- Bruno Walter: a world elsewhere: with a new introduction...
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A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
Book by Henry A. Beers; Henry Holt, 1901
Subjects: English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Pre-Raphaelitism, Romanticism--England, Scott, Walter--Sir--1771-1832
...Brunetiere would surely not deny that Walter Scotts work is objective and dramatic...I. WALTER SCOTT , 1...ENGLISH ROMANTICISM. CHAPTER I. Walter Scott. * IT was reserved for Walter...
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A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman
Book by Charles W. Dryden; University of Alabama Press, 1997
Subjects: African American Air Pilots--Biography, Dryden, Charles W--(Charles Walter), Tuskegee Army Air Field (Ala.), United States--Army Air Forces--Biography, World War, 1939-1945--Aerial Operations, American, World War, 1939-1945--Participation, African American, World War, 1939-1945--Personal Narratives, American
...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dryden, Charles W. Charles Walter A-train : memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman...paper 1. Dryden, Charles W. Charles Walter 2. World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations...Conference SCLC ; Cornelius Henderson and Walter Kimbrough, former senior pastors at Ben...
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International Dictionary of Physics and Electronics
Book by Walter C. Michels; Van Nostrand, 1956
...August 1956 Second Prepublication Printing, August 1956 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTRIBUTING EDITORS WALTER C. MICHELS, Senior Editor Bryn Mawr College NIEL F. BEARDSLEY K. MENDELSSOHN Ohio State University University of Oxford...
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Boris's Bells, by Way of Schubert and Others
Journal article by Mark Devoto; Current Musicology, 2007
Subjects: Boris Godunov (Opera), Chords (Trusses)--Evaluation, Harmony (Music)--Evaluation, Harmony--Evaluation, Schubert, Franz--Works
...York: Oxford University Press. Piston, Walter and Mark DeVoto. 1987. Harmony...revised fifth edition (1987) of Walter Pistons Harmony, when I might (though...sevenths, but these are treated in Piston and DeVoto (1987), chapter 25...
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The Thermodynamics of Gender: Lawrence, Science and Sexism
Journal article by Michael Wutz; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 28, 1995
Subjects: Authors, English--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Lawrence, D.H.--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Literature and science--Analysis, Sexism in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...disembodied Geist and the physical vigor of Walter in terms of hot and cold heat. Unlike...marital estrangement of Elizabeth and Walter Bates. Framed by the narrative perspective...dramatizes Elizabeths escalating impatience at Walters repeated failure to return home from the...
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Squeezebox: The Legacy of the Afro-Mississippi Accordionists
Journal article by Jared M. Snyder; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 17, 1997
Subjects: Accordion--History, Accordionists--History, Blues musicians--History, Mississippi--History
...strongest basis of comparison with those of Walter "Pat" Rhodes. Based on Evanss detailed...Memphis in the company of the Reverend Walter Buchanan, who knew Rhodes from having...Crowing Rooster" and "Leaving Home Blues" by Walter "Pat" Rhodes, accompanied by "Pet" and...
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Jobs and Justice: Detroit, Fair Employment, and Federal Activism during the Second World War
Journal article by Andrew E. Kersten; Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 25, 1999
Subjects: Detroit, Michigan--Social aspects, Employment discrimination--History, Federal government--Social policy, Labor movement--History, National government--Social policy, Social problems--Michigan, United States history, 1921-1945, United States history--1933-1945
...president James McClendon, the UAWs Walter Reuther, and United States Army...Nash-Kelvinator and Ray Day Piston, into adopting fair employment...of the conflict, NAACP leader Walter White judged that its causes...displayed by factory workers. Both Walter White and United States Attorney...
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The Education of an Inventor
Journal article by John F. Taplin; Daedalus, Vol. 125, 1996
Subjects: Entrepreneurship--Personal narratives, Inventors--Personal narratives
...rubber seal for sealing many types of pistons. We soon learned that the companies that...lubrication problems associated with all the piston seals available at that time. Our rolling...seal filled the entire space between the piston and the cylinder wall. In addition, our...
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The 20th-Century War Veteran Club
Magazine article by Aimee Bender; The Antioch Review, Vol. 61, Spring 2003
...wheelchair brands as if they are cars and Walter listens, interested, nodding from his...engines. He feels at home when the word piston is spoken. Vincent is fifty-one now...killer." Everyone is deferential to Walter, who refuses to sit though a seat is offered...
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NOTES & COMMENT - Hybrid Vigor
Magazine article by Gregg Easterbrook; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 286, November 2000
Subjects: Automobile industry--Innovations, Automobiles, Electric--Product development, Electric cars--Product development, Hybrid vehicles--Product development
...Essentially, the electric coil serves as an energy recycler for the piston part. Because less energy is lost from the gasoline, less gasoline...that his original goal was never met-and some may be relieved. Walter Alvarez was attempting to figure out the geologic origin of...
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The Copland Century
Magazine article by Tom Pniewski; World and I, Vol. 15, November 2000
Subjects: Composers--Biography, Copland, Aaron--Biography
...fellow Americans Virgil Thomson, Roger Sessions, and Walter Piston. While in Europe, Copland took the opportunity to travel...organist. After the New York performance, conductor Walter Damrosch broke with tradition: He turned to the audience...
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Syncopated Clock, Indeed: On Leroy Anderson's Centennial, a Defense of the Popular Composer from an Orchestra's Stage
Magazine article by Janet Frank; American Scholar, Vol. 77, Summer 2008
Subjects: Anderson, Leroy--Biography, Composers--Biography
...came from a musical family and studied composition with Walter Piston at Harvard, Anderson was a linguistics scholar. A Phi...Oscar Shumsky; the violists included William Lincer and Walter Trampler; and Leonard Rose, Janos Starker, Frank Miller...
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The Presence of Joe
Magazine article by Gordon Rogoff; American Theatre, Vol. 13, November 1996
Subjects: Actors--Practice, Chaikin, Joseph--Practice, Theater--Social aspects
...verbal thickets: twinned in their distrust of certainty, each nevertheless presents work after work marked by the precision of piston engines. They know how to wait for the crowning thought, the hard-earned image. To risk an image myself, Id say that the theatres...
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How Butt of Has Enjoyed Gascoigne Jokes the Last Laugh; Life of Brian: Laudrup Was in Glasgow to Collect Walter Smith's Hallof Fameaward Lastweekend You've Come a Long Way, Rino: Gattuso Wasn't Afraid to Mix It Up with Gough and Laudrup (Right) as a Kid at Ibrox, but No One Would Have Predicted He Would Help Italy Lift the 2006 World Cup
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 14, 2007
...Brian: Laudrup Was in Glasgow to Collect Walter Smiths Hallof Fameaward Lastweekend Youve...heartbeat of AC Milan and the red-hot piston in Italys engine room,Rino Gattuso arrives...moved. Laudrup remembers thinking that Walter Smith had signed the human equivalent...
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Director Offers Musical Potpourri for Christmas
Newspaper article by Mark Longaker; The Washington Times, December 8, 1996
...received a bachelor of arts degree in music from Harvard University in 1959. While there he studied composition with Walter Piston and counterpoint with Randall Thompson and sang in the mens chorus. He served 20 years as a bass soloist, composer...
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20 Reasons to Watch the NBA
Newspaper article by Greg Frazier; The Washington Times, February 5, 1999
...Outlook: With Laettner, Vaught on board to support superb Hill, Pistons could be NBAs most-improved team. 5. CHARLOTTE HORNETS...Theyre back: F Antoine Walker, G Ron Mercer, G Kenny Anderson, F Walter McCarty Outlook: Celtics gained more athletic talent to improve...
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Reclaiming Longstreet's Reputation
Newspaper article by Thomas J. Dilorenzo; The Washington Times, May 24, 1996
Subjects: Lee, Robert E.
...against James Longstreet," writes historian William Garrett Piston in his book, "Lees Tarnished Lieutenant." Early used his attacks...sunrise attack on July 2, 1863, the second day at Gettysburg. Walter Taylor, Lees chief of staff, assured Longstreet that he recalled...
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Camerata Lifts Voices and Spirits with Song: Group Builds on Long Tradition of Men's Choruses
Newspaper article by Mark Longaker; The Washington Times, December 8, 1996
...out, they will make the first recording of four American works by Mr. Beveridge, Norman Scribner, Samuel Barber and Walter Piston. Also planned is a CD of large Renaissance a cappella pieces by Thomas Tallis and Giovanni Palestrina. * * * A...
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Piston, Walter
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
PISTON, WALTER 1894 1976, American composer and teacher, b. Rockland, Maine. Piston studied at Harvard and with Nadia Boulanger...He became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1934. Piston was a neoclassicist composer, using traditional...
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Carter, Elliott Cook, Jr
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...New York City. Carter is considered by many to be the most important contemporary American composer. He studied with Walter Piston , E. B. Hill, and Gustav Holst at Harvard and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris (1932 35). Carters complex mature...
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Boulanger, Nadia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...the American Conservatory, Fontainebleau, becoming its director in 1950. As the teacher of such American composers as Walter Piston, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Roy Harris, and Marc Blitzstein, she has profoundly influenced American music. She...
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Thermodynamics
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...absolute zero as closely as one desires, one cannot actually reach this limit. The third law of thermodynamics, formulated by Walter Nernst and also known as the Nernst heat theorem, states that if one could reach absolute zero, all bodies would have the same...
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Serial Music
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...in addition to pitch. Important composers of serial music include Igor Stravinsky, Ernst Krenek, Egon Wellesz, and Walter Piston. For further information see separate articles on all composers mentioned in this article. See J. Rufer, Composition...
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