William Duckworth

About the artist

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)

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  1. Times Curve Prelude No. 17
  2. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I: XII - q = 124
  3. The Time Curve Preludes: No. 2
  4. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I: III - q = 126
  5. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I - q = 104
  6. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I: II - q = 104
  7. The Time Curve Preludes: No. 17
  8. The Time Curve Preludes: No. 12
  9. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I - q = 132
  10. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I: IV - q = 132
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  1. The Time Curve Preludes: No. 1
  2. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I: VI - q = 104
  3. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I: VII - q = 72
  4. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I: VIII - q = 76
  5. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I - q = 192
  6. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I: IX - q = 96
  7. The Time Curve Preludes: No. 7
  8. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I: XI - q = 80 - Freely, with great rubato
  9. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I - q = 126
  10. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I - q = 72
  11. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I - q = 76
  12. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I - q = 96
  13. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I - q = 124
  14. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I: I - q = 104
  15. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I - q = 80 - Freely, with great rubato
  16. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I: V - q = 132
  17. Prelude One
  18. Prelude Three
  19. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I: X - q = 192
  20. Tango Voices
  21. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), xiv
  22. Prelude Eight
  23. Prelude Four
  24. Prelude Nineteen
  25. Prelude Two
  26. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), vi
  27. Prelude Five
  28. Prelude Ten
  29. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), i
  30. binary images
  31. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), iii
  32. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), ii
  33. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), iv
  34. Prelude Six
  35. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), viii
  36. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), v
  37. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I: VI - q = 102
  38. Prelude Seven
  39. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), vii
  40. Prelude Nine
  41. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), ix
  42. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), x
  43. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), xi
  44. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), xiii
  45. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), xix
  46. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), xxi
  47. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), xxii
  48. Prelude Seventeen
  49. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), xvii
  50. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), xviii
  51. Prelude Twenty
  52. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), xvi
  53. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), xx
  54. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), xv
  55. The Time Curve Preludes: II.
  56. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), xxiv
  57. Prelude Eighteen
  58. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), xxiii
  59. Prelude Eleven
  60. Prelude Sixteen
  61. Prelude Thirteen
  62. Prelude Fifteen
  63. Prelude Fourteen
  64. forty changes
  65. The Time Curve Preludes: I.
  66. Prelude Twelve
  67. Prelude Twenty-Four
  68. The Time Curve Preludes for Piano (1978-79), xii
  69. The Time Curve Preludes: XII.
  70. Prelude Twenty-Three
  71. The Time Curve Preludes: XVII.
  72. The Time Curve Preludes: X.
  73. Prelude Twenty-One
  74. The Time Curve Preludes: VII.
  75. Solemn Thought
  76. Prelude Twenty-Two
  77. Cheerful
  78. Duckworth: Wondrous Love
  79. Consolation
  80. Prelude I
  81. Hebrew Children
  82. Bozrah
  83. Rock of Ages
  84. Wondrous Love
  85. The Time Curve Preludes, Book I: The Time Curve Preludes, Book I - q = 104
  86. Leander
  87. Distress
  88. Prelude III
  89. The Mouldering Vine
  90. Prelude IV

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