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Years after Walter Piston's death, his students and their students can still take great pride in the enduring vitality of his teaching. By now it is plain that the book is different from what it used to be, but its essential approach and its basic substance remain as they were. The major departure of the fourth edition was the addition of seven new chapters, including four on the complicated subject of harmony after common practice, which had not been discussed in the first three editions. However, then as now, the core of the book remains the exhaustive treatment of common-practice harmony, the subject of most one-year or two-year courses in tonal harmony. In the present edition, the entire text has been carefully revised with a view to clarifying the language and illuminating the essential principles. Wherever possible, the text has been "opened up" to allow the reader to adopt a more leisurely pace through what had been a terse and detailed presentation. The results will also be perceived in the more spacious design of this edition. New exercises have been added to the early chapters as well as some fresh music examples. There is an entirely new chapter on musical texture that serves to clear up many difficult points encountered by the beginning student. Another innovation is the rearrangement of the chapters dealing with harmonic rhythm and the structure of the phrase as well as the inclusion of a short summary of analytical method. This book has long been known as an introductory textbook, but because of its comprehensive range, it also serves as an invaluable reference book. The acquisition of an consummate knowledge of composers' practice the goal of any study of harmony is admittedly an endless assignment. Ars longa, vita brevis, but consolation may be derived from the thought that intellectual and artistic rewards are to be found at all stages along the way."
Year of Decision 1846 tells many fascinating stories of the U.S. explorers who began the western march from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from Canada to the annexation of Texas, California, and the southwest lands from Mexico. It is the penultimate book of a trilogy which includes Across the Wide Missouri (for which DeVoto won both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes) and The Course of Empire. DeVoto's narrative covers the expanding Western frontier, the Mormons, the Donner party, Fremont's exploration, the Army of the West, and takes readers into Native American tribal life.
Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was a historian, critic, editor,
professor, political commentator, and conservationist, and above
all a writer of comprehensive skill. As a contributor for more than
thirty years to "Harper's" and other magazines, he was known for
his forceful opinions. His essays were often brash and opinionated
and kept him in the public limelight. One stinging essay even led
the FBI to create a file on him. His five serious novels are
forgotten today, but his magazine short stories and the well-paid
potboilers that he wrote under a pseudonym (John August) subsidized
the first of the significant works of American history that brought
DeVoto lasting fame. Four of his historical works, all still in
print, are "The Year of Decision: 1846," a Book-of-the-Month Club
selection in 1943; "Across the Wide Missouri," which won the
Pulitzer Prize in history in 1948; 1953 National Book Award-winning
"The Course of Empire"; and his popular abridged edition of the
"Journals of Lewis and Clark," which also appeared in 1953.
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