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Waite was educated and taught solely at Yale. He began his teaching career in 1947 and received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1951.
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William Waite
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His dissertation, The Rhythm of Twelfth-Century Polyphony: its Theory and Practice outlines his ideas on modal interpretation of organum duplum. The second half of this work is a transcription of organum from the Magnus liber organi. His textbook, The Art of Music (1962), written with Beekman Cannon and Alvin Johnson, was a popular introductory music text for many years.
He died from pancreatic cancer in 1980.
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