related works
Gabriël : for trumpet solo and orchestra, 2002 / Ron Ford
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Trumpet and orchestra
Scoring:
fl(pic fl-a) fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h 2trb perc pf str trp-solo
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
medium/low 1111 1000 perc pf(cel) str
Auferstehung der Bettler Cantate : für Sopran und Kammerorchester / Robert (Bob) Hanf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
soprano chamber orchestra
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bar 0000 0330 str
composition
Song and dance : for soprano and orchestra / Ronald Ford; text: Ottavio Rinuccini
Other authors:
Rinuccini, Ottavio
(Text writer/Librettist)
Ford, Ron
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): Songs and Dance uses the text 'Piangono al Pianger mio' by the renaissance librettist/poet Ottavio Rinuccini in an English translation. The textual images of weeping beasts and sighing stones formed the initial inspiration for the orchestral part. Slowly, tentatively, the orchestra moves forward, feeling its way into new territory. This very gradual development is contrasted by the active rhythmic sense, resulting in a music which is both slow and fast at the same time. At a certain point the soprano begins telling us the text that we have already been hearing in the orchestra, singing as a sort of cantus firmus from within the orchestra. - RON FORD