related works

Riff : for wind ensemble / Edward Top

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Wind ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: 2fl 2ob cl cl-b fg cfg 2h trp trb tb

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

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

Urban songs : soprano, large ensemble, computers / Klas Torstensson

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble; Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr(synth) 2pic(fl) ob eh cl-b cl-cb fg(cfg) 2sax h 2trp trb tb 2perc g-b pf keyboard 2vl vla vc cb computers

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