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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.

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

Five Cabaret Songs (1985)

10 minutes
for voice and variable ensemble

1. Chanson d'automne (Verlaine)
2. La cloche fêlée (Baudelaire)
3. Being beauteous (Rimbaud)
4. Encore un chapelet ( Anon. 13th cent.)
5. Colloque sentimental (Verlaine).

Voice, melody instrument (can be played by clarinet, soprano, alto or tenor saxophone, violin or any other instrument), harmony instrument (piano, organ, guitar, vibraphone or accordion, or any combination); score includes percussion suggestions

Commissioned by Mini Dekkers with funds from the Music Board of the Australia Council

First performance by Marjanne Kweksilber (soprano), Mini Dekkers Trio, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1 March 1987

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A Terrible Whiteness (1984)

8 minutes
for mezzo-soprano and piano

Text:

poems by Elizabeth Smart

Commissioned by Elizabeth Campbell with funds from the Music Board of the Australia Council

First performance by Elisabeth Campbell (mezzo-soprano) and Anthony Fogg (piano), National Library of Australia, Canberra, 16 November 1986

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Rap (1984)

6 minutes
for voice and digital delay

Text: John Donne

First performance by Austin Allen (baritone), De Ijsbreker, Amsterdam, Netherlands, February 1984

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Prologue, Chorale and Melodrama (1981)

12 minutes
for soprano and chamber orchestra

Concert suite from Poe

Text: Graham Devlin

2-0-1(=bass cl)-0 / 1-2-2-0 / 1 perc / pno (=cel) / elec org (=hpsd) / 1-1-1-2-1

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Est il paradis? (1981)

10 minutes
for soprano, clarinet in C (= bass clarinet) and percussion

Text: Three rondeaux and a motet, all anonymous, from 13th-century France

Commissioned by Poppy Holden, with funds from the Yorkshire Arts Association

First performance by Poppy Holden (soprano), Ian Mitchell (clarinet), Nic Shipp (percussion), Theatre-in-the-Mill, Bradford, UK, 30 November 1981

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Wedding Songs (1981)

12 minutes
for low voice and cello

1. Wedding March (Hopkins)
2. Bridal Song (Beaumont & Fletcher)
3. Night Song (Chapman)
4. Love Song (Burns)

Text: poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Beaumont and Fletcher, George Chapman and Robert Burns

First performance by Austin Allen (baritone) and Ann hart (cello), St Patrick;s Church, Finglas West, Dublin, 8 July 1981

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