related works
Meester Max : en de minimonsters in het donkere bos, kinderopera, 2007 / Ron Ford
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
recit fl ob cl fg h trp trb mar 2vl vla vc cb
Fünf tragische Lieder : für Bariton und Orchester / Geert van Keulen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bar 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg 4h 2trp 3trb perc cel str
Songs : for voice and orchestra / Walter Hekster
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
voice 2121 1110 perc hp str
Marsua : for mezzo soprano and string orchestra, 1996 / text: Hugo Claus, Anton Havelaar
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m 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