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
Der tolle Mensch : stem en ensemble, 2003 / Maarten Altena
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Y después : for voice and ensemble, 1983 / text: Federico García Lorca, Louis Andriessen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
voice fl 3sax h 3trp 3trb pf cb
Ereprijs in haar keel : voor sopraan en ensemble / Chiel Meijering; lyrics by Piet Gerbrandy
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
pic fl cl sax-s sax-a h trp 2trb tb perc pf g-el g-b
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