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
	
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
	
From Turkey : 5 songs for soprano and small wind orchestra, 1993 / Bernard van Beurden
	
			Genre: 
		
		Vocal music
	
			Subgenre: 
		
		Voice and large ensemble
	
			Scoring: 
		
		sopr 3221 4sax 2232 2barh 4perc
	
	
			Genre: 
		
		Vocal music
	
			Subgenre: 
		
		Voice and large ensemble
	
			Scoring: 
		
		ten fl cl-b timp 4perc pf str
	
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