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
Bass Trombone Concerto : for bass trombone and orchestra / Edward Top
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Trombone and orchestra
Instruments:
trb-b-solo 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2trp trb timp perc pf str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Instruments:
sopr-m 1111 1010 perc vibr(xyl) hp pf vc cb
Rasenmäher : for large jazz orchestra and voice / Renard A. Aust, lyrics by Markus Berges
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Instruments:
zang sax-s 2sax-a 2sax-t sax-bar fg 5trp 4trb trb-b tb 2perc g-s pf db
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Instruments:
sopr 1111 1110 pf vl vla vc cb
composition
Family Songs : for soprano and chamber orchestra / Edward Top; text Martinus Nijhoff, Hanny Michaelis, Edward Top
Other authors:
Michaelis, Hanny
(librettist)
Nijhoff, Martinus
(librettist)
Top, Edward
(librettist)
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