Bill Dixon and “the form of the song” (Preview)

Bill Dixon, Codex Series I (lithograph, 1994) A subscriber post on Substack on some rare pieces by Bill Dixon and his relation to extended (or compressed) songform. In 1979, Dixon wrote a piece called ‘Places’ for the soprano Jennifer Keefe. Premiered at Bennington at an Erik Satie tribute concert organised by composer and Bennington Faculty, Vivian Fine, with work by Dixon and Fine in the…