William Duckworth
Born in 1943,
William Duckworth is credited as composer of the first postminimal piece of music,
Time Curve Preludes. He has also composed
Thirty-One Days (1987) for Alto Saxophone, and
Southern Harmony, a choral work which uses certain features of shaped-note singing. He is also the author of
Talking Music: Conversations With John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers,
A Creative Approach to Music Fundamentals,
20/20: 20 New Sounds of the 20th Century, and the editor of
Sound and Light: La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela.
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