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William Duckworth (born in 1943) 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 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), and the editor of Sound
and Light: La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela (ISBN 0838753469).
Nora Farrell, Duckworth's
wife, runs Monroe Street
Records, which publishes many of his pieces.
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