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Arrangements

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

Please click work titles for more information and resources (audio, sheet music, program note etc.) about individual works in this category.

There Was a Man Lived in the Moon (2015)

28 minutes
for singer(s) and varying instrumentation

1. Have you seen the Muffin Man? (voice, bass clarinet, bassoon, trombone)
2. Cock a Doodle Doo (voice, 2 violins)
3. Miss Polly had a Dolly (2 voices, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, side drum)
4. Lavender's Blue (voice, horn, bassoon)
5. Higglety Pigglety my black hen (voice, oboe, bassoon)
6. Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross (voice, harpsichord, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass)
7. The Tailor and the Mouse (voice, flute, clarinet, bassoon, tubular bells)
8. Incy Wincy Spider (voice, piccolo, bass clarinet) 9. Aiken Drum (voice, bodhran, violin, viola, cello, double bass)
10. Girls and Boys come out to Play (voice, harpsichord, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass) 11. On a Mountain Stands a Lady (voice, piccolo, side drum, cello, double bass)
12. Oranges and Lemons (voice, trumpet, trombone, tubular bells)
13. Hot Cross Buns (voice, harpsichord)
14. See saw, Marjorie Daw (voice, viola, cello)
15. I love little pussy (voice, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone)
16. Ding dong bell, pussy's in the well (voice, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, tubular bells)
17. Little Boy Blue (voice, horn, viola, cello, double bass)
18. Twinkle, twinkle, little star (piano)
19. Baa, baa, black sheep (voice, piano)
20. Rock-a-bye Baby (2 violins, viola, cello).

Soprano and/or baritone voices, flute/piccolo, oboe, clarinet/bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion, piano/harpsichord, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass

Commissioned by ABC Classics

First live performance by Tobias Cole (counter-tenor), Clive Birch (baritone), Vocal Fry, Turner Trebles, Simón Bolívar String Quartet, Meriel Owen (harp), Zubin Kanga (keyboards), Ensemble Offspring conducted by Roland Peelman, Canberra International Music Festival, Fitters' Workshop, Canberra, 30 April 2017

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Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child (2015)

2 minutes
for six voices or six-part choir

Arrangement of American Spiritual

Text:

Traditional

for six voices: SSAATB or SSATBarB

First performance by Choir of St John's Cathedral conducted by Graeme Morton, St John's Cathedral, Brisbane, 13 December 2015 

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Three Northumbrian Songs (2011-12)

11 mins
for soprano, harp and string quartet

1. Bonny at Morn
2. Maa Bonny Lad
3. Dance to Thi Daddy

Commissioned by Jane Sheldon

First complete performance by Fiona Campbell (mezzo-soprano), Australia Ensemble, Sir John Clancy Auditorium, University of NSW, Sydney, 8 June 2019

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Tales of the Supernatural (2002)

31 mins
folksongs for voice and string quartet

1. Niin mina neitonen -- 2. The great silkie of Sules Skerry -- 3. Den fortrollade barnafoderskan -- 4. The Bay of Biscay -- 5. The house carpenter -- 6. The unquiet grave -- 7. Niin minä neitonen.

Commissioned by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust

First performance by Jane Edwards and the Australian String Quartet, Elder Hall, University of Adelaide, 5 March 2004

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Estampie (1999)

2 minutes
for clarinet, darabouka, harp and sting quartet

Arrangement of 13th-century English estampie

First performance by Kowmung Music Festival Ensemble, Kowmung Music Festival, Abercrombie Caves, NSW, 27 March 1999

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Beautiful Dreamer (1997)

3 minutes
for unaccompanied chamber choir

Arrangement of the song by Stephen C. Foster

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Patapan (1992)

1 minute
for orchestra

2(2+picc)-2-2-2 / 4-2-3-1 / 2 perc /hp / strings

Commissioned by Tall Poppies Records

First performance by Australian Youth Orchestra conducted by Graham Abbott, Eugene Goossens Hall, Sydney, 

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