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
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr mand-orch
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
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr-m 1111 1010 perc vibr(xyl) hp pf vc cb
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