related works

Aliquid stat pro aliquo : for four singers / Edward Top, 2008

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Vocal ensemble (2-12)
Scoring: 4voices

Map of Freedom : for mezzo-soprano, setar, solo violin, solo violincello and chamber string orchestra / Aftab Darvishi; on lyrics by Houshang Ebtehaj

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: zang setar vn-solo vc-solo str

Memoria : voor sopraan en instrumentaal ensemble, 1991 / tekst van Federico García Lorca, Frank de Munnik

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr 1121 1110 perc hp pf 2vl vla vc cb

Verzamelde liederen / arr. Toek Numan, Modest Musorgskij

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble

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