related works
My Skeletonized Portrait : for violin and orchestra / Edward Top
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Violin and orchestra
Scoring:
vl-solo 3fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3trp 2trb trb-b tb timp 3perc hp cel str
Toccata : Cantate 3, for orchestra, 1999 / Hans Koolmees
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
5555 sax-s 4441 6perc hp 2pf str
Préludes: Deuxième livre : for orchestra / Claude Debussy / Luc Brewaeys
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl fl-a(picc) 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 2tpt 2trb tb 3perc hp cel str
Symphony: Pure thoughts transfixed : for large orchestra / Svitlana Azarova
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl(pic) 2ob ob(eh) 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3trp 2trb trb-b perc str
composition
Symphony : Golden dragon, for orchestra, 2001 / Edward Top
Other authors:
Top, Edward
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): There are three main elements onto which this piece is constructed. 1) Sound: this is often created by successions of clusters; I shall call them cluster-chorales, hissing sounds (strings), chromatic walls, and/or modal sound fields. - 2) Motives: there are a number of motives of different character forming the basis of the composition, either tonal-melodic or harmonic and chromatic. - 3) Traditional gestures: a lot of gestures in the piece originate from traditional symphonic music. The final chorale towards the end of the work is some sort of blown up Tchaikowski. The three elements join each other in a fourth element: Layers. On many occasions there are different elements sounding simultaneously and in different instrumental groupings. An important feature in the Symphonys orchestration is the particular octave doubling, or being 'on the verge of octavation'. Idea is to create extra tension by not resolving dirty octaves, i.e. major sevenths and minor ninths. One could say
the orchestration has become part of compositional ideas, even with finding pitches. After its original setting including Wagner tubas and contrabass trombone, the symphony was revised in 2001 and the orchestration was reduced. - EDWARD TOP