related works

Rescriptio : for intercultural string orchestra / Edward Top

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring: 3erhu 2kamancheh 2vn 3vla 2vc db

La porte : for baritone and ensemble, 1999 / text: Guillaume Apollinaire, Micha Hamel

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: bar 1121 1000 2perc 2vl vla vc cb

.. 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

Voices in the dark : for soprano, winds, bassguitar and piano, 1979 / Charles van der Leeuw

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr 1010 3sax 2220 g-b pf

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