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Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
2222 4231 Perc(3) Harp Piano/Celesta/synth Strings
Belsazer : for alto and orchestra / Henriëtte Bosmans; words by Heinrich Heine
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt 3222 4220 timp perc cel hp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
medium 2222 4231 timp 3perc cel hp 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