related works

Bass Trombone Concerto : for bass trombone and orchestra / Edward Top

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Trombone and orchestra
Scoring: trb-b-solo 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2trp trb timp perc pf str

.. A/.ta-lon/ : voor mezzo-sopraan, en 36 spelende en pratende instrumentalisten (1967-68) / muziek en tekst van Simeon ten Holt

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr-m 3351 2310 mar vibr hp g man pf 3vl 3vla 3vc 3cb

Das Lied von der Erde : Arrangement for tenor, alto (or baritone) and large chamber ensemble / Gustav Mahler; arranged by Henk Guittart

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: 2zang fl/picc ob/eh cl h fg harm pf cel 2perc 2vn vla vc db

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