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

1494 : for voice and instrumental ensemble / Kim Bowman

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr(perc) 1001 2200 2perc hp pf vl vla vc cb / sopr(perc) 1001 2200 2perc hp pf str

Rasenmäher : for large jazz orchestra and voice / Renard A. Aust, lyrics by Markus Berges

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: zang sax-s 2sax-a 2sax-t sax-bar fg 5trp 4trb trb-b tb 2perc g-s pf db

MERZ : for voice and ensemble / Hans Koolmees, on texts by Kurt Schwitters

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: zang 2fl cl 2sax tpt 2trb tb g-e g-b perc pf/cel

 

composition

Family Songs : for soprano and chamber orchestra / Edward Top; text Martinus Nijhoff, Hanny Michaelis, Edward Top

Publisher's number: 13579
Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: fl ob cl cl-b fg h perc hp str
Remarks: Composed for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra new music series Symphony at the Annex.
Duration: 19'00"
Year of composition: 2013
Status: fully digitized (real-time delivery)

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

Sheet Music
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