related works
Building blocks : = Blokkendoos, for orchestra, voor orkest, 1985 / Ronald Ford
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2112 4220 timp hp pf str
Songs of Music : for tenor, horn, harp and strings / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
tenor-voice h hrp str
Drie gedichten van Jan Luyken : (1649-1712), voor sopraan en orkest / Alexander Voormolen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2122 2000 perc cel pf str
Saul en David : for soprano and orchestra (in honour of Rembrandt) / Sem Dresden
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 3323 4330 timp 2-3perc cel hp str
composition
Song and dance : for soprano and orchestra / Ronald Ford; text: Ottavio Rinuccini
Author(s):
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