composer
The music of composer Edward Top is characterized by extreme contrasts. Rather than being an abstract and independent medium existing outside the human experience, music has the power to induce ...
related works
A Storm is Blowing from Utopia : for piccolo, vibraphone, piano and contrabass / Edward Top
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Instruments:
pic perc pf cb
Celebration : for brass instruments / Jo van den Booren
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Wind ensemble (2-12 players)
Instruments:
4h 4trp 4trb tb
Symphonietta : voor blaasinstrumenten / Willem van Otterloo
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Wind ensemble (2-12 players)
Instruments:
pic 2fl 2 ob ca 2cl bcl 4hn 2fg cfg
Concerto grosso "2000" ("La Creazione") : for winds and percussion / André Laporte
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Wind ensemble (2-12 players)
Instruments:
3fl 3ob 3cl 3fg 4h 3trp 3trb tb-bass 3perc
composition
Riff : for wind ensemble / Edward Top
Description:
Riff is built on a chromatic theme in parallel fifths (‘power chords’) with a direct-ness and rawness of a heavy-metal riff. Similar to a theme-and-variations form, this theme goes through several metamorphoses. Towards the climactic end it returns in its original guise, as a recapitulation with additional dissonant stabs in a cubistic rhythm.
Edward Top, 2014