The Little Hunchback
The Caprice en forme d'arabesques ("Caprice in the Form of Arabesques") was composed in Morocco while Dillon Ford was on the faculty of the American School of Tangier (1982-83). This six-movement suite tells no specific story. Each movement, rather, represents some impression of a particular person, place, or thing encountered either in everyday reality or in the realm of imagination.
The The Little Hunchback comes from The Thousand and One Nights, which Ford read in Antoine Galland's French translation during his stay in Tangier. His tale is recalled by recourse to some decidedly mischievous invertible counterpoint.