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Genre:
Unknown
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bar 2fl(picc) 2ob(eh) 2cl(cl-b) 2fg 2h 2tpt timp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr fl fl(pic) ob ob(eh) cl cl-b 2fg 4h 3trp 3trb tb timp perc hp str
Trois sérénades : (chant et orchestre) / Hanna Beekhuis
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m 2222 2000 timp perc hp 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