related works

Rescriptio : for intercultural string orchestra / Edward Top

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring: 3erhu 2kamancheh 2vn 3vla 2vc db

Gezien Hercules Segers : for soprano and instrumental ensemble / Elmer Schönberger

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr 2cl(cl-b) h tpt pf hp cimbalom perc 2vn vla vc db

Three Shakespeare songs : for mezzo-soprano and instrumental ensemble, 1994-1995 / Ton de Leeuw ; on texts by William Shakespeare

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr-m fl(pi,fl-a) ob cl sax 2h 2trb 2perc hp pf(synth, glock) 2vl 2vla 2vc

Georg-Trakl-Lieder : für Kontratenor, Saiteninstrumente und Schlagwerk, 1974-76(78) / Jacques G. Goosen

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: ten-c 2perc 2vibr hp 7vl 4vla 2vc cb

composition

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

Author(s):
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