William Duckworth

William Duckworth (born in 1943) is credited as composer of the first postminimal piece of music, The Time Curve Preludes. He composed Thirty-One Days (1987), for alto saxophone, and Southern Harmony, a choral work which uses certain features of shape note singing. He is the author of: * Talking Music: Conversations With John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers (ISBN 0306808935) * A Creative Approach to Music Fundamentals (ISBN 0534094201) * 20/20: 20 New Sounds of the 20th Century (ISBN 0028648641) He is editor of Sound and Light: La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela (ISBN 0838753469). He is a music professor at Bucknell University. Nora Farrell, his wife, runs Monroe Street Records, which publishes many of his pieces. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.