《辟氏和声学》一书,在我国盛行了三十多年,影响不小,意大利籍美国音乐理论家、作曲家沃尔特·辟斯顿(Walter Pi-ston)1894年一目二十日生于美国梅因州的罗克兰,今年是他诞辰的90周年。他于1976年去世,享年82岁。他著的《和声分析原理》(1933)、《和声学》(1941)、《对位法》 The book, “The School of Pronunciations and Acoustics”, prevailed in our country for more than thirty years and had a great impact. Walter Pi-ston, an Italian-American musical theorist and composer, was born in the United States on the 20th in 1894 Rockland, in Maine, is the 90th anniversary of his birth this year. He died in 1976 at the age of 82. His “Harmony Analysis Principles” (1933), “Harmony” (1941), “Counterpoint Law”