related works

My Skeletonized Portrait : for violin and orchestra / Edward Top

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Violin and orchestra
Scoring: vl-solo 3fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3trp 2trb trb-b tb timp 3perc hp cel str

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

Six Cavafy songs : for baritone and ensemble / Robert Nasveld ; text by C.P. Cavafy

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: bar fl(fl-a, pic) ob(eh) cl(cl-b) fg(friction pot) h(bazooka) trp trb 2perc pf 2vl vla vc cb

Gebroken sprookjes : voor stem (bas) en 15 instrumenten, 1991 / tekst: Said, Mireille en Nining, Jacques Bank

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: bas 1121 1110 perc pf(cel) 2vl vla vc cb

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