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

The book of Indians : for soprano and ensemble, 1996 / [texts from The Indian's Book ; ed. by Natalie Curtis], Paul Termos

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr 1111 1010 perc pf 2vl vla vc cb

A crossing place : for mezzo-soprano and instrumental ensemble, 1989 / Frank de Munnik

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr-m 1121 1110 perc hp pf vl vla vc cb

Der Choral vom Manne Baal : Und Orges Gesang / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: picc fl 2sax h tpt 2trb tb per pf eg eb baritone

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