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	CATHEDRAL a work for the web incorporating live performers, interactive electronics, and images
		On line: June 10, 1997, 12:34 a.m. www.monroestreet.com/Cathedral
	MYSTERIOUS NUMBERS  orchestra version: 1111 1110 211 strings
		Completed: December 1996; West New York Published: Monroe Street Music, NYC; 1997 Premiere: Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Cleveland, Ohio; Edwin London, conductor. April 14, 1997 Piccolo Spoleto; Charleston Symphony, Donald Portnoy, conductor; 1997 "William Duckworth's Mysterious Numbers...was the night's most intriguing essay...a sonorous, glistening workout" Donald Rosenberg, Cleveland Plain Dealer,1997 "[Mysterious Numbers] is a fascinating transversal of endlessly repeated figures bounced from one instrumental group to another. Portnoy and the orchestra built up quite a head of steam as the tonal contrasts sped by." William Furtwangler, Charleston Post and Courier,1997
	MYSTERIOUS NUMBERS  ensemble version: fl, clar, vln, vc, pno, perc.
		Completed: June 1996; Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida Published: Monroe Street Music, NYC; 1996 Premiere: Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida by the New Performance Group of Seattle; June 21, 1996 Seattle, WA, Sonora (New Performance Group); 1997
	A FEW RIFFS BEFORE DAWN  3 toy pianos, 1 performer
		Commissioned by Margaret Leng Tan Completed: Summer 1995; West New York and Brooklyn Published: Monroe Street Music, NYC; 1995 Premiere: Honolulu, Hawaii; Margaret Leng Tan; May 26,1996 Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, SC; Margaret Leng Tan; 1997 "Live from the Stork Club," WFMU, New York; Margaret Leng Tan; 1997
	MEDITATIONS ON SATIE, Nos. 1-3  solo keyboard
		Commissioned by Margaret Leng Tan Completed: 1994; West New York Published: Monroe Street Music, NYC; 1995
	REVOLUTION  4 percussion and 2 grand pianos, in unison, amplified
		Commissioned by Essential Music, New York Completed: January 1993; Weehawken, NJ Published: Monroe Street Music, NYC; 1993 Premiere: Washington Square Church, New York, NY; Essential Music; March 25, 1993 The Kitchen, New York; Gruppen II Festival; Essential Music; January 14, 1994 Alteforum Festival, Ferrara, Italy; Ars Ludi Ensemble; July 9,1995 The Kitchen, New York; Tenth Anniversary Concerts, Essential Music; July 13,1997 "William Duckworth's Gathering Together/Revolution...may be the best piece he's written. Not only an infectiously joyous essay in interlocking rhythms for mallet percussion, drums, and keyboards, it's a compositional landmark: the first chance-determined postminimal moment form." Kyle Gann, The Village Voice,1993
	GATHERING TOGETHER  2 keyboards and 2 mallet percussion
		Commissioned by Ars Ludi, Rome Completed: June-July 1992; New York Published: Monroe Street Music, NYC; 1993 Premiere: Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome; Ars Ludi; September 21, 1992 Washington Square Church, New York, NY; Essential Music; March 25, 1993 Alteforum Festival, Ferrara, Italy; Ars Ludi; July 9, 1995
	THEIR SONG  baritone voice and piano
		Commissioned by Thomas Buckner, New York Completed: August 1991; New York Published: Monroe Street Music, NYC; 1993 Premiere: Merkin Concert Hall, New York, NY; Thomas Buckner; May 13, 1993 The Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA; Thomas Buckner; 1993 Tonal Immersion Festival, Beverly Hills, CA; Thomas Buckner; 1995 Herbst Theater, San Francisco, CA; Thomas Buckner; 1997 "William Duckworth's Their Song, with chance-selected texts from Henry Miller, Gertrude Stein, and others, flirted with Erik Satie's salon-chanson simplicity, though with typically Duckworthian jazz touches." Kyle Gann, The Village Voice,1993
	BLUE RHYTHM  flute/violin, cello, piano
		Commissioned by The Huntingdon Trio, Philadelphia Completed: Summer 1990; New York Published: Monroe Street Music, NYC; 1993 Premiere: The Ethical Society, Philadelphia; The Huntingdon Trio; February 3, 1991 Stichting Logos, Ghent, Belgium; The Huntingdon Trio; March 19, 1991 Mandell Theater, Philadelphia, PA; Relache; 1993 "[The Trio] accentuated the strengths in...Blue Rhythm--its verve and use of jazz elements....the piece really has...more to do with the unusual rhythms found in the best of minimalism. No two of the strong-pulsed phrases seemed the same length, a device that kept up the work's interest." Peter Dobrin, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1991
	12 WORDS  solo inst. or voice with 4 similar instruments, written with Hayden Carruth
		Completed: 1989-1990; Lewisburg, PA Published: Monroe Street Music, NYC; 1994 Premiere: Roulette, New York City; Michael Swartz, alto saxophone; March 24, 1990 "It opened with one of the best improv effects I've heard...Within the limitations, the style ranged from a melee of polka riffs to a mellow, Arnold Bax-ian impressionism to tense, Stockhausenish abstractions. The reed-soloist/group duality brought Boulez's Domaines to mind, but 12 Words was more coherent...Swartz fashioned a paradox: a rough-edged, intense, Kurzwellen/Ascension by the smoothest of new tonal composers." Kyle Gann, The Village Voice,1993