- Ford, Joseph Dillon. "Against All Enemies" (Gainesville: 2010).
Read "Against All Enemies."
- Ford, Joseph Dillon. "The Feather of Icarus" (Gainesville: 2009).
Read "The Feather of Icarus."
- Ford, Joseph Dillon. "Music and Change: Some Fresh Food for Thought." (Gainesville: 2009).
Read "Music and Change: Some Fresh Food for Thought."
- Ford, Joseph Dillon. "Paradiso 34." (Gainesville: 2007).
Read "Paradiso 34."
- Ford, Joseph Dillon, Roman Turovsky, et al. "Musical Historicism" Wikipedia. 2007. 29 January 2007.
Read "Musical Historicism" (in progress)
- Ford, Joseph Dillon. Introduction. Visions, Dreams, and Memories. Music by Hayg Boyadjian, Nancy Bloomer Deussen, William Hill, Michael Mauldin, Randall Snyder, and David Yeagley. Moravian Philharmonic. Cond. Lawrence Golan. Albany Records, 2007.
- ______. "Childe Henry's Booke of Excellent Adventures." (Gainesville: 2006).
- ______. "The Rape of Europa" (Gainesville: 2006).
- ______. "Suffer the Little Children" (Gainesville: 2006).
- ______. "The Gilded Frame." (Gainesville: 2005).
Read "The Gilded Frame."
- ______. "Katrina's Wrath and a Lie Laid Bare." (Gainesville: 2005).
Read "Katrina's Wrath and a Lie Laid Bare."
- ______. "Schoenberg, Modernism, and Meaning in Music." (Gainesville: New Music Classics, 2005).
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- ______. "Thinking Outside the New-music Box: Physics, Time, and the Art of Musical Composition" (Gainesville: New Music Classics, 2005).
Read "Thinking Outside the New-music Box: Physics, Time, and the Art of Musical Composition."
- ______. "Mnemosyne and Apollo: The Role of Memory in Musical Creativity" (Gainesville: New Music Classics, 2004).
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- ______. "Time: The Greatest Musical Mystery" (Gainesville: New Music Classics, 2004).
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- ______. Orpheus in the Twenty-First Century: Historicism and the Art Music Renascence (Gainesville: New Music Classics, 2003).
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- ______. Chromatic One: A New Technique for Instrumental Speech (Gainesville: New Music Classics, 2003).
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- ______. Historicism and the Question of Originality in the Arts (Gainesville: New Music Classics, 2003).
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- ______. "Has the Arrow of Time Missed Its Mark?." 22 October 2002.
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- ______. "The Knight and the Lily." 2 September 2002 (rev. 26 October 2003).
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- ______. "Save Glen Springs School." The Gainesville Sun, 1 April 2002.
- ______. "The Tale of Three Coconuts." 16 July 2001. Initially distributed through online Unitarian-Universalist Buddhist Forum.
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- ______. "The Tale of Wu-Wei." 10 July 2001. Initially distributed through online Unitarian-Universalist Buddhist Forum.
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- ______. "The Lure of Coins." Harvard Magazine 102, no. 6 (2000): 4-5.
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- ______. "Noguchi Is Dead, Long Live Noguchi." Harvard Magazine 102, no. 1 (1999): 4.
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- ______. "The Paradise Flower." Music and Spirituality Archive (9 July 1999, nos. 155-60).
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- ______. "The Muse in the Attic." Music and Spirituality Archive (30 June 1999, nos. 425-27).
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- ______. "Originality: A Post-modern Paradox." Music and Spirituality Archive (12-13 February 1999, nos. 255 and 260).
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- ______. "Sidi Mustafa: A Fable." Music and Spirituality Archive (5 January 1999, nos. 155-60).
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- ______. "Distressed Humanities." Harvard Magazine 100, no. 6 (1998): 4-5.
- ______. "The Erl King." (translated in 1997).
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- ______. "The Farmer and the Ass." (1997, first published online 19 September 2001).
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- ______. "The Sack." (1997, rev. and first published online 23 September 2001).
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- ______. "Homily." (1997, rev. and first published online 28 October 2003).
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- ______. "On Time, Originality, and the Art of Musical Composition." Edge City Review 2, no. 3 (1997): 19-24.
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- ______. "AOL Censors the Bible." The Miami Herald, 18 March 1996.
- ______. "From Vocal Memnon to the Stereophonic Garden: A Short History of Sound and Technology in Landscape Design." Paper accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Ames, Iowa, September, 1995.
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- ______. "Movie is Truthful." The Miami Herald, 13 June 1995.
- ______. "The Message in Lot's Story: Be Kind to Strangers." The Miami Herald, 16 June 1994.
- Ford, Joseph Dillon, with Leonardo Alvarez; Margot Ammidown; Juan Antonio Bueno; William McK. Klein, Jr.; Dennis J. Olle; and Arva Moore Parks. Places in Time: Historic Architecture and Landscapes of Miami. Ed. Leonardo Alvarez and Joseph Dillon Ford. Miami: Florida International University, 1994.
- Quoted by Peter Whoriskey in "Architects' Designs Based on Ethnic Projections," The Miami Herald, 28 November 1993, sec. G, p. 7.
- Quoted (with photograph) by Michael Leccese in "South Florida Rebuilds," Landscape Architecture 83, no. 6 (1993): 24.
- Bueno, Juan Antonio and Joseph Dillon Ford. "Regional Context Study." In The New South Dade Planning Charrette: From Adversity to Opportunity. Miami: University of Miami School of Architecture and Florida International University School of Design, 1993.
- Ford, Joseph Dillon, et al. The Landscapes of University Park: A Guidebook for Visitors. Miami: Florida International University School of Design, 1992.
- Ford, Joseph Dillon. Historicism and the Question of Originality in the Arts. Miami: J. D. Ford Publications, 1992.
- ______. Steps to Parnassus: A Musical History of the Euramerican Soundscape. Final master's project, Florida International University, 1991.
- ______. "The Squirrel." (1990, rev. and first published online 24 October 2003).
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- Ford, Joseph Dillon, and Victor Lob. Interface: The Official Newsletter of MIDI-Miami, nos. 1-4 (1990).
- Ford, Joseph Dillon. "To E. J. C.," Sonnet, "Hymn to Adamas," "Marisol," "The Initiation," "The Sylph's Plaint," and "The Rule of Sila." In Loves Ancient and Forbidden. Miami: J. D. Ford Publications, 1990.
- ______. "Notre Dame des pleurs," "The Virgin of the Spring," "The Visitation," "Icarus," "Zephyr and Hyacinth," "Narcissus," and "Mythus." In The Virgin of the Spring and Other Poems. Miami: J. D. Ford Publications,1990.
- ______. "He Who Reaches," "I Cannot Name," "The Innocent Know Not Suffering," "12 January 1988," "Poetry," "State of the Art," "Nocturn," "Trinity," and "Epitaph." In Bones of the Poet. Miami: J. D. Ford Publications, 1990.
- ______. "Megabungoose," "A Piqued Tale," and "The Vicar." In Curiosities. Miami: J. D. Ford Publications, 1990.
- ______. "Censorship or Morality? Debate Marches On." The Miami Herald, 4 October 1986.
- ______. "Why Part-Time Teachers Deserve to Get a Break." The Miami Herald, 20 April 1984.