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American musicologist
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About William Waite
- William G.
- Waite (October 1917, Massachusetts – 1980) was an American-born musicologist. Waite was educated and taught solely at Yale.
- He began his teaching career in 1947 and received his PhD in 1951.
- 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.
- [1] 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.
