related works

Bass Trombone Concerto : for bass trombone and orchestra / Edward Top

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Trombone and orchestra
Scoring: trb-b-solo 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2trp trb timp perc pf str

Papagika : for voice, baglama (or other traditional instrument), 12 strings and electronics / Yannis Kyriakides

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: zang baglama 12str

MERZ : for voice and ensemble / Hans Koolmees, on texts by Kurt Schwitters

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: zang 2fl cl 2sax tpt 2trb tb g-e g-b perc pf/cel

...e'l vento tace... : for mezzo-soprano, large wind ensemble and 6 percussionists, 1998/1999 / text: Francesco Petrarca, Wim Laman

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr-m fl(pic fl-a) fl(pic) 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg fg-cb 2sax 2h 2trp 3trb tb 6perc

composition

Family Songs : for soprano and chamber orchestra / Edward Top; text Martinus Nijhoff, Hanny Michaelis, Edward Top

Other authors:
Michaelis, Hanny (Text writer/Librettist)
Nijhoff, Martinus (Text writer/Librettist)
Top, Edward (Text writer/Librettist)
Top, Edward (Composer)
Description:
In Family Songs it was my objective to move towards simplicity and away from my usually complex and maximalist style. The texts, in both Dutch – my mother tongue - and English, are all chosen and written to express the honesty of life, memory and expectations of parent- and childhood. As such, upon reading, they almost dictated the music in an intuitive and folk-music-like way.

Edward Top, 2013