related works
Eruption : for orchestra / Edward Top
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl(picc) 2ob cl cl-b 2fg 4h 2trp 2trb trb-b timp 3perc hp str
Explicaties : for ensemble, 2007 / Guus Janssen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
voice fl(pic) cl cl-b 2sax fg h trp trb 2perc g hp pf cemb 2vl vla vc cb
Keats II : for high voice and chamber orchestra, 1997 / on words by John Keats, Maarten Altena
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
high 2222 2220 2perc pf 4vl 2vla 2cb
Vier gedichten van M. Nijhoff : voor een zangstem en 15 instrumenten, 1935 / Piet Ketting
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr-m 2230 0000 perc pf acc vl 2vla vc
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