Peter Westergaard

Person · Open Library

Works

6

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1931-05-28

Active to

2019-06-26

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

26

Total plays

353

Biography: Peter Westergaard is the William Shubael Conant Professor of Music, Emeritus, at Princeton University. A composer and music theorist, he was a student of Milton Babbitt. He has composed numerous operas from Charivari (1953) to Alice and Wonderland (2006). He is also the author of "An Introduction to Tonal Theory (W.W. Norton, 1975). Amongst former pupils of Babbitt, Westergaard stands out for his contributions to serial theory, as well as for his compositions <a href="https://www.l

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives

   · 1999 · cited 87,414x

2. A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation

   · 1987 · cited 42,817x

3. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,947x

4. RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials

   · 2019 · cited 25,573x

5. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 24,208x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Peter

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Champaign

Occupation

researcher

Educated at

Princeton University

Employer

Princeton University

Award

Guggenheim Fellowship

Genre

opera

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