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

Intrada festiva : 1971, per 4 corni, 4 trombe e 4 tromboni / Jo van den Booren

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Wind ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: 0000 4440

Unendlich sinfonisch : for winds and percussion, 1980 / Ted Ponjee

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Wind ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: 3232 sax 4331 3perc

Grande Fantasia (metamorphosis #1); opus 72 : for saxophone orchestra / Leo Samama

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Wind ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: 2sax-s 4sax-a 2sax-t 2sax-bar 2sax-b

composition

Riff : for wind ensemble / Edward Top

Other authors:
Top, Edward (Composer)
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