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    Walter Piston

    Walter Piston was Professor of Music at Harvard University. An outstanding composer whose many works have been performed by leading orchestras and chamber ensembles both in the US and abroad, he received the Pulitzer Prize twice for distinguished musical composition.

    Walter Piston

    Walter Piston was Professor of Music at Harvard University. An outstanding composer whose many works have been performed by leading orchestras and chamber ensembles both in the US and abroad, he received the Pulitzer Prize twice for distinguished musical composition.

    Books by Walter Piston

    • Counterpoint

      Walter Piston

      Hardback, 1947

      The art of counterpoint is the art of combining melodic lines. The essence of counterpoint, however, is something deeper than a process of manipulation. It is an ingredient of the inner vitality of...

    • Orchestration

      Walter Piston

      Paperback, 1955

      In this book Walter Piston again displays those qualities that distinguished his earlier books, Harmony and Counterpoint.

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