composer
The music of composer Edward Top is characterized by extreme contrasts. Rather than being an abstract and independent medium existing outside the human experience, music has the power to induce ...
related works
Eruption : for orchestra / Edward Top
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
2fl(picc) 2ob cl cl-b 2fg 4h 2trp 2trb trb-b timp 3perc hp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Instruments:
sopr-m 1111 1010 perc vibr(xyl) hp pf vc cb
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Instruments:
bas-bar 1110 sax-t crt 2perc pf 2vl vla vc cb
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Instruments:
sopr-m fl/fl-a ob/eh 2cl/2cl-b fg/cfg cymb cemb pf hp acc harm 2vl vla vc db
composition
Family Songs : for soprano and chamber orchestra / Edward Top; text Martinus Nijhoff, Hanny Michaelis, Edward Top
Other authors:
Michaelis, Hanny
(librettist)
Nijhoff, Martinus
(librettist)
Top, Edward
(librettist)
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