related works
Inzet : for carillon, 1994/1995 / Ron Ford
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Carillon
Scoring:
car
Trois sérénades : (chant et orchestre) / Hanna Beekhuis
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m 2222 2000 timp perc hp str
Fleurs du mal : 1980/81 / [texte] (Ch. Baudelaire), Wim Laman
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m/alt fl(fl-a) fl(pic) ob ob(eh) 2cl cl-b fg fg(cfg) 2sax 4h 2trp 2trb tb 3perc str(0.10.8.0.) tape vl-solo
Harpzang van koning David : XLI / woorden: J. van den Vondel, [Henk Bijvanck]
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt/sopr-m 2223 4322 timp perc 2hp str
composition
Song and dance : for soprano and orchestra, 1990 / text: Ottavio Rinuccini, Ronald Ford
Other authors:
Ford, Ron
(Text writer/Librettist)
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