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Title: These Pistons are burned out
Review: Walter Piston taught at Harvard. I am a former Harvard music major. I find all of his books to be excessively pendantic to the point where they are boring. There is no joy in his writing. He approaches his subject like the author of a high school alegra text. He wrote for money and his books were published because he had impressive academic credentials, and for no other reason.The true test is to do some brief comparative reading with texts by other authors. Who inspires? Who bores? Judge for yourself.
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