DUCKWORTH, William
(*1943)
DUCKWORTH, William (13 January 1943). An unusual university composer, Duckworth produced one piece of such brilliance and originality that it has become a hard act for him to top. Especially in the Neely Bruce recording, which remains superior to other renditions, The Time Curve Preludes (1979) reflects Modular Music, as well as the popular concern with generating audible overtones, without resembling any previous music conceived in those ways. Composed for a specially retuned piano, the…