related works
The stillpoint : for violin and vibraphone, opus 4, 1994/1995 / Edward Top
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
vibr vl
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr 1121 1110 perc hp pf 2vl vla vc cb
Y después : for voice and ensemble, 1983 / text: Federico García Lorca, Louis Andriessen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
voice fl 3sax h 3trp 3trb pf cb
For the time being : for alto voice and ensemble of winds and percussion, 1990 / Jan Guichelaar
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
alt 3230 4221 3perc pf
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