related works
Chain : for wind orchestra, 1995, revision 1997 / Ron Ford
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Wind ensemble (13 or more players)
Scoring:
3333 4441
Four trifles : for high voice and small orchestra, op. 33, 1948/50 / Marius Flothuis
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
high 1121 sax-a 1100 timp perc cel vibr hp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-solo 2fl/picc/fl-a 2ob/eh 2cl 2fg.cfg 2h 2trp 2trb/trb-b tb timp cymb perc 2hp cel str
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 / 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