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	Walter Hamor Piston - Biography and Works by Classical Favorites
		With help from Shaw, Walter Piston was admitted to Harvard in 1920, where he studied counterpoint with Archibald Davison, canon and fugue with Clifford Heilman, advanced harmony with Edward Ballantine, composition and music history with Edward Burlingame Hill.
		At the Ecole Nationale de Musique in Paris, Piston studied composition and counterpoint with Nadia Boulanger, composition with Paul Dukas and violin with George Enescu.
		Piston's handwriting was so neat that almost all his orchestral scores were published as facsimiles of his original scores, and he also wrote the musical examples in the textbooks he authored.
	www.classicalfavorites.com /composers/Walter_Hamor_Piston (730 words)

	Walter Piston Summary
		Walter Piston was born on Jan. 20, 1894, in Rockland, Maine.
		Piston was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Third Symphony in 1948 and for the Seventh Symphony in 1961.
		Piston's handwriting was so neat that almost all his orchestral scores were published as facsimiles of his original scores, and he also wrote the musical examples in the textbooks he authored.
	www.bookrags.com /Walter_Piston (0 words)

	PBS - Leroy Anderson - Walter Piston
		Piston always advised us to listen to our compositions as though someone else had written them.
		Walter Piston, composer and educator, taught at Harvard for 34 years, from 1926 to 1960.
		As an educator Piston was known for his seminal musical textbooks: The Principles of Harmonic Analysis; Counterpoint; and Orchestration.
	www.pbs.org /sleighride/Biography/Walter_Piston.htm (222 words)

	Walter Piston — FactMonster.com
		Piston studied at Harvard and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris; he joined the faculty of Harvard in 1926.
		Piston was a neoclassicist composer, using traditional forms with sure technique and intellectual style.
		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.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0839200.html (192 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		During the 1910s Walter Piston made a living playing piano and violin in dance bands, and later on in the decade played violin in orchestras led by Georges Longy.
		Piston studied the twelve-tone technique of Arnold Schoenberg and wrote works using aspects of it as early as the Sonata for Flute and Piano (1930) and the First Symphony (1938).
		Piston wrote four books on the technical aspects of music theory which are considered to be classics in their respective fields: Principles of Harmonic Analysis, Counterpoint, Orchestration and Harmony.
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	Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Piston
		Walter Piston, the grandson of an Italian seaman (the original family name was Pistone), was born in Maine in 1894.
		Piston returned to America in 1926 and was appointed to the faculty of Harvard, where he remained until 1960, composing, teaching, and writing.
		Piston's music is beautifully crafted and technically assured, qualities which, combined with his reputation as a pedagogue, have occasionally given the mistaken impression (as is also true of Hindemith) that he is little more than a conservative, dry, academic composer.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/piston.html (477 words)

	Walter Piston - Encyclopedia.com
		Piston studied at Harvard and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris; he joined the faculty of Harvard in 1926.
		Piston was a neoclassicist composer, using traditional forms with sure technique and intellectual style.
		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.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Piston-W.html (490 words)

	Piston Walter Hamor - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Piston Walter Hamor - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Piston, Walter Hamor (1894-1976), influential American composer, who was chiefly a composer of orchestral and chamber works and often wrote for...
		Piston, solid cylinder or disk that fits snugly inside a hollow cylinder and slides back and forth.
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	Walter Piston program notes (Feb'05) \| Chamber Orchestra of the Springs
		Walter Piston (1894-1976) was born in Maine and taught himself to play the violin and the piano as a child, and spent the next decade performing in theater orchestras, dance bands, hotels and restaurants while studying to become an architect.
		Piston loved to create and explore musical sonority, and his skill as an architect probably inspired his appreciation of classical forms.
		Piston juxtaposes a variety of nervous, contrapuntal forces in the first movement, reminiscent of Hindemith, while the second movement forms around a haunting, lyrical melody for oboe and winds.
	www.chamberorchestraofthesprings.org /Piston52.htm (280 words)

	The Infography about Walter Piston (1894-1976)
		The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is Walter Piston.
		"Walter Piston," The Musical Quarter 32 (1946): 354-375.
		Harvard Composers: Walter Piston and His Students, from Elliott Carter to Frederic Rzewski.
	www.infography.com /content/011230473877.html (74 words)

	Leroy Anderson > Biography : One of America's Greatest 20th Century Composers
		At Harvard Leroy studied musical harmony with Walter Spalding, counterpoint with Edward Ballantine, canon and fugue with William C. Heilman, and orchestration with Edward B. Hill and Walter Piston.
		In graduate school, he studied composition with Walter Piston and Georges Enesco; organ with Henry Gideon and double bass with Gaston Dufresne of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
		Awarded a B.A. magna cum laude in Music from Harvard College; elected to Phi Beta Kappa; continued in Graduate School, studied composition with Walter Piston and Georges Enesco; studied organ with Henry Gideon and double bass with Gaston Dufresne of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
	www.leroyanderson.com /html/biography.htm (2425 words)

	Walter Piston Biography - famous Walter Piston Classical collection and Walter Piston Music Reviews.
		Walter Piston descended on his father's side from Antonio Pistone, his grandfather, who sailed from Italy and settled in Rockland, Maine.
		Walter Hamor Piston, Jr., was born in Rockland on 20 January 1894, where he lived until he was ten and then moved to Boston.
		From 1926 until his retirement in 1960 Walter Piston was a member of the faculty of Harvard University, where he was (from 1951) Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music.
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	Walter Piston Biography from Basic Famous People - Biographies of Celebrities and other Famous People
		With help from Shaw, Walter Piston was admitted to Harvard in 1920, where he studied counterpoint with Archibald Davison, canon and fugue with Clifford Heilman, advanced harmony with Edward Ballantine, composition and music history with Edward Burlingame Hill.
		At the Ecole Nationale de Musique in Paris, Piston studied composition and counterpoint with Nadia Boulanger, composition with Paul Dukas and violin with George Enescu.
		Piston's handwriting was so neat that almost all his orchestral scores were published as facsimiles of his original scores, and he also wrote the musical examples in the textbooks he authored.
	www.basicfamouspeople.com /index.php?aid=4827 (766 words)

	Walter Piston: Chamber Music (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The music of Walter Piston (1894-1976) inhabits the same world as the novels of John Updike or the poems of Robert Lowell: genteel, mannered, restrained and technically proficient.
		The flute is integrated into the string quartet's textures, yet Piston allows the instrument's contrasting tone to highlight occasional passages and allow them to rise above the polyphony.
		Piston handles the notorious difficulties of the format with ease.
	www.msu.edu /user/gualtie3/Piston.html (420 words)

	Art of the States: Walter Piston (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Piston was also a noted educator and author of a series of now widely-used compositional texts, including Harmony (1941), Counterpoint (1947), and Orchestration (1955).
		Piston's college education began at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, where he studied draftsmanship and architecture and met his future wife, painter Kathryn Nason.
		Piston composed over 40 orchestral works in his lifetime which were commissioned and performed by orchestras across the United States, eleven by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Serge Koussevitzky.
	www.artofthestates.org /cgi-bin/compbio.pl?compname=pistonwalter (262 words)

	Walter Piston: Chamber Music
		The music of Walter Piston (1894-1976) inhabits the same world as the novels of John Updike or the poems of Robert Lowell: genteel, mannered, restrained and technically proficient.
		The flute is integrated into the string quartet's textures, yet Piston allows the instrument's contrasting tone to highlight occasional passages and allow them to rise above the polyphony.
		Piston handles the notorious difficulties of the format with ease.
	www.classical-music-review.org /reviews/Piston.html (420 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
		Born in 1894 in Rockland, Maine, Walter Piston was recognized in his lifetime as the ultimate musical craftsman, producing a body of orchestral and chamber work distinguished by its quintessential neo-classic qualities of clarity and proportion.
		Also a noted educator, Piston taught at Harvard from 1926 to 1960 and wrote three significant music textbooks: Harmony (1941), C ounterpoint (1947), and Orchestration (1955).
		Piston enjoyed a close working relationship with Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra which commissioned several works from the composer.
	www.karadar.it /Dictionary/piston.html (0 words)

	Walter Piston
		Walter Piston, the grandson of an Italian seaman (the original family name was Pistone), was born in Maine in 1894.
		Born 20 January 1894 in Rockland, Maine, Walter Piston was recognized in his lifetime as the ultimate musical craftsman, producing a body of orchestral and...
		Born in 1894 in Rockland, Maine, Walter Piston was recognized in his lifetime as the ultimate musical craftsman, producing a body of orchestral and chamber...
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	Walter Piston
		Born 20 January 1894 in Rockland, Maine, Walter Piston was recognized in his lifetime as the ultimate musical craftsman, producing a body of orchestral and chamber work distinguished by its quintessential neo-classic qualities of clarity and proportion.
		Also a noted educator, Piston taught at Harvard from 1926 to 1960 and wrote three significant music textbooks: Harmony (1941), Counterpoint (1947), and Orchestration (1955).
		Among Piston's many awards and honors were three New York Music Critic's Circle Awards for his Symphony No. 2, Viola Concerto, and String Quartet No. 5, two Pulitzers, and eight honorary doctorates.
	www.schirmer.com /composers/piston_bio.html (0 words)

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		Walter Piston, Sonata for Orchestra, Symphonies 5 6, and 7.
		Walter Piston, Walter Sessions, David Diamond, and Howard Hanson, to name just a few of the better known Copland contemporaries, have all wrestled with rather than opposed him and managed to write appealing if not always distinctive music.
		Moving from Symphony 5 to Symphony 6, we immediately find ourselves in more introspective territory, with very few hints of Copland anywhere to be found.Piston is among the most appealing of modernist/romantic Americans and his secret, to my ears, lies in the importance he almost always gives to wind instruments, both woodwinds and brass.
	www.positive-feedback.com /Issue9/piston.htm (1082 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
		Born in 1894 in Rockland, Maine, Walter Piston was recognized in his lifetime as the ultimate musical craftsman, producing a body of orchestral and chamber work distinguished by its quintessential neo-classic qualities of clarity and proportion.
		Also a noted educator, Piston taught at Harvard from 1926 to 1960 and wrote three significant music textbooks: Harmony (1941), C ounterpoint (1947), and Orchestration (1955).
		Piston enjoyed a close working relationship with Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra which commissioned several works from the composer.
	www.karadar.com /Dictionary/piston.html (260 words)

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