related works
Building blocks : = Blokkendoos, for orchestra, voor orkest, 1985 / Ronald Ford
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2112 4220 timp hp pf str
She weeps over Rahoon : for soprano and orchestra, 1980, Roel van Oosten / [text] (James Joyce)
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2222 4231 timp perc hp pf str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
medium/low 1111 1000 perc pf(cel) str
Ave Maria : voce bassa, archi / Alexander Voormolen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
low 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