Joseph Dillon Ford (February 6, 1952, in Americus, Georgia , US – March 8, 2017) was an American composer and author.
7-642: Joseph or Joe Ford may refer to: Joseph Dillon Ford (born 1952), American composer and author Joe Ford (jazz musician) (born 1947), American jazz saxophonist Joe Ford (footballer) (1886–?), English footballer Joe Ford (rugby union) (born 1990), rugby union footballer Joseph M. Ford (1912–1954), member of the Dearborn, MI City Council 1945–1953 Joe T. Ford , CEO and co-founder of Alltel Joseph Ford (physicist) (1927–1995), physics professor and author at Georgia Tech [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
14-499: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Joseph Dillon Ford He held undergraduate degrees in music and graduate degrees in both musicology and landscape architecture. Although he focused on keyboard performance during his college years, Ford completed his training at Harvard as a Variell Scholar specializing in historical musicology. He studied twentieth-century composers and compositional techniques with Ivan Tcherepnin ,
21-509: Is tonal—often very traditionally so, he also produced non-tonal work using both acoustic and electronic media, and developed synthetic chromatic dialects amenable to both idioms. Keenly interested in emergent music and telecommunications technologies and the rich potential they offer for international creative collaborations, he also conceived and brought to fruition numerous large-scale projects in which his interdisciplinary artistic background proved to be an especially useful asset. These include
28-547: The Colloque Fou de Basson, Conservatoire Gabriel Fauré, Angoulême); Nu Mu [sic!] Unlimited (2006–09), the world's first virtual new music festival; and Ye New Music Fayre (2008–09), a seminal event featuring new music composed in traditional tonal and modal styles. Ford was the founder of the Delian Society , whose efforts to reinvigorate tonal music attracted many composers and performers on six continents and drew attention to
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42-451: The works of Bach and Handel with Christoph Wolff , Dowland and the English lutenists with John Ward , and the music of medieval Aquitaine with David Hughes. His major works include three symphonies, a piano concerto, several harpsichord concertos and sonatas, choral music, and a large quantity of chamber and solo works for the piano and other instruments. Although most of his oeuvre
49-734: The world's largest sound sculpture, an ongoing Web-based work that commemorates the monumental "Standing Buddhas of Bamiyan" demolished by the Taliban in 2001; the "Westron Wynde" Project (begun in 2004), for which composers in the US, Canada, and the UK each contributed music for James J. Pellerite (former principal flutist of the Philadelphia Orchestra); the Delian Suites Nos. 1 through 5 (2005–09), each exploring various tonal idioms (No. 4 in cooperation with
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