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Compositions

Andrew Ford has composed orchestral and chamber music, operas and music-theatre pieces, and a wide range of vocal and solo instrumental works. Follow the category links, or individual work links, to read program notes and reviews, listen to free audio, and purchase scores, CDs and MP3 files.

Stage

This section contains operas and music-theatre works, as well as children's operas.

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Stage - opera

Andrew Ford has composed five operas including the Green Room Award-winning Rembrandt's Wife.

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Stage - music theatre

These pieces include solo vehicles for singers/actors, with and without instruments.

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Stage - children's opera

Opera for young people to perform. Both Peter Pan and The Piper's Promise also require one adult (professional) singer.

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Orchestral

Andrew Ford has composed a lot of works for orchestras, large and small, with and without soloists.

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Orchestra with voice

There are works here for soprano, counter-tenor, tenor, baritone and speaking voices, all with small orchestras.

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Orchestra with solo instrument

Concertos for viola, cello, piano and electric guitar, as well as smaller works with solo instruments.

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Chamber orchestra

In this section there are works such as Contradance and Dance Maze for large ensembles of single instruments, as well as pieces for more conventional small orchestras.

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String Orchestra

These works are for chamber-sized string orchestras or - in the case of the three central movements of Manhattan Epiphanies - seventeen solo strings.

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Wind and brass

This section includes pieces for brass band, as well the the Maggs Award winning Rauha.

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Symphony orchestra

These works are mostly for standard symphony orchestra, though they range in size.

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Choral

Music for mixed choir and male choir, with and without instruments in response to words by Les Murray, David Malouf and Gwen Harwood, C.P. Cavafy, Sappho and St John of the Cross.

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Vocal

Andrew Ford's vocal works are among his best known, and several of them have won awards, notably Learning to Howl, which won the prestigious Paul Lowin Prize in 2004.

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Voice and ensemble

These works include the Lowin Prize-winning Learning to Howl, and the Lowin Prize finalists Willow Songs and Last Words. They set to music words by Shakespeare and Sappho, Anne Stevenson and Robert Louis Stevenson, Judith Wright and Craig Raine.

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Voice and instrument

These pieces set to music poems by Anne Carson, Elizabeth Smart, Christina Rossetti and Shakespeare, together with words from the Book of Proverbs and the Girls' Own Annual of 1919

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Chamber music

Ford’s chamber music includes six string quartets, and numerous works for mixed ensemble, some involving piano.

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Chamber music - strings

This category includes strings quartets, octets and a quintet, as well as a clarinet quintet and piano quartet.

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Chamber music - winds

This section includes a wind quintet, a saxophone quartet, and a piece for massed flutes that is part of a continuing series (see Chamber Music: brass for similar pieces for cornet and trombones).

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Chamber music - percussion

Alongside pieces for percussion quartet, there's the award-winning Tattoo for 12 timpani and four pianos.

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Chamber music - mixed instrumentation

This is a large section containing music for different combinations of winds, strings, percussion and keyboards, including four chamber concertos.

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Chamber music - brass

Ford's brass music includes sea shanties for quintet, and pieces for massed cornets and trombones. (See also Orchestral: Wind and brass for music for brass band.)

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Instrumental (solo and duo)

This largest section of the site contains solos and duos for most instruments in various combinations. The pieces range from solo piano works to a piece for carillon, a solo for sleighbells and a duo for recorder and harp.

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Instrumental - brass

A dark duo for bass trombones and a bright trumpet sampler from the opera Peter Pan.

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Instrumental - percussion

Andrew Ford's Composition in Blue, Grey and Pink has been played all over the world, but here you'll also fund other solos, two duos and works with violin and viola.

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Instrumental - piano

Ford's piano music includes award-winning collection The Waltz Book, sixty minute waltzes that may be performed separately, complete or in any combination.

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Instrumental - strings

There are solos and duos here for violin, viola, cello and bass, as well as harp pieces.

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Instrumental - wind

This section contains a lot of frequently played music for flute (Including piccolo, alto and bass flutes), as well as solos for oboe, clarinet and bass clarinet.

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Radiophonic

Ford's experience as a radio presenter and sometime producer is evident from these works designed for the intimacy of home listening or headphones.

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Music for children

This section includes music both for children to perform (Eight Australian Birds) and to listen to.

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Arrangements

Ford's arrangements include folk songs, nursery rhymes, a mediaeval estampie and a parlour song by Stephen C. Foster.

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