A Creative Approach to Music Fundamentals - Softcover

Duckworth, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495796433 ISBN 13: 9780495796435

Publisher: Schirmer, 2009

Synopsis

Internationally renowned composer William Duckworth covers music fundamentals in 14 concise main chapters supplemented by 11 enrichment appendices, offering extended coverage for those who desire additional instruction.

About this title

About the Author:

An internationally known composer, acclaimed teacher of American music, and the founder of Postminimalism, William Duckworth has written more than 200 works, including the well-known Time Curve Preludes for piano. In addition to numerous teaching awards, Rolling Stone magazine called his teaching "hip, bright and innovative." Duckworth has been honored by the American Music Society as one of Six Master Teachers in America. Additionally, Cathedral, co-created with Nora Farrell and online since 1997, is one of the first interactive works of music and art on the Web. Duckworth's honors include the 2001 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Internet Award, the 2002 Award in Music from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and a 2007 Senior Fulbright Specialist Award that assigned him to the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre in Brisbane, Australia, and resulted in iOrpheus, Duckworth and Farrell's 2-year unfolding of video podcasts, stage performances, and a public opera in the streets and promenades of Brisbane's South Bank Parklands.

About this edition

• Publisher: Schirmer
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0495796433
• ISBN 13: 9780495796435
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384