related works
Riff : for wind ensemble / Edward Top
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Wind ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
2fl 2ob cl cl-b fg cfg 2h trp trb tb
Concerto grosso "2000" ("La Creazione") : for winds and percussion / André Laporte
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Wind ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
3fl 3ob 3cl 3fg 4h 3trp 3trb tb-bass 3perc
Unendlich sinfonisch : for winds and percussion, 1980 / Ted Ponjee
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Wind ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
3232 sax 4331 3perc
Symphonietta : voor blaasinstrumenten / Willem van Otterloo
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Wind ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
pic 2fl 2 ob ca 2cl bcl 4hn 2fg cfg
composition
Riff : for wind ensemble / Edward Top
Author(s):
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