Background
Westergaard, Peter Talbot was born on May 28, 1931 in Champaign, Illinois, United States. Son of Harald Malcolm and Rachel (Talbot) Westergaard.
(This book was developed for a first-year two-semester col...)
This book was developed for a first-year two-semester college-level course in tonal theory. This book owes its greatest debts to Schenker, Fux and Bernhardt. Its central pedagogical means--species counterpoint--is that developed by Fux in the Gradus ad Parnassum. But is goal is that developed by Schenker in Kontrapunkt--the ability to understand the complex and varied voice-leading patterns of actual eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music in terms of the simpler patterns available under the artificial constraints of species counterpoint.
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Westergaard, Peter Talbot was born on May 28, 1931 in Champaign, Illinois, United States. Son of Harald Malcolm and Rachel (Talbot) Westergaard.
He studied with Roger Sessions, Walter Piston, Darius Milhaud, Edward Cone, Milton Babbitt and Wolfgang Fortner (Pratt 2001) in Freiburg/Germany.
He is Professor Emeritus of music at Princeton University. He pursued undergraduate studies at Harvard University, graduating in 1953, and in 1956 obtained an Master of Fine Arts degree from Princeton University. He taught at Columbia University, Amherst College, and Princeton University before retiring in 2001.
Westergaard continues to be active as a composer, mainly of opera and chamber music
Amongst former pupils of Babbitt, Westergaard stands out for his contributions to serial theory, as well as for his compositions, which are characterized by a delight in symmetry and mirror relationships, together with a concern for the systematic and integrated use of all the parameters of music, producing multileveled, clear, beautiful, and audible patterns (Griffiths 1981, 160–61).
(This book was developed for a first-year two-semester col...)
Married Barbara Jay, September 11, 1955. Children: Elizabeth, Margaret.