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

Song of the Witches : for soprano and ensemble / Chiel Meijering; lyrics by W. Shakespeare

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr 6h str

Caliban Sings (Three Songs from William Shakespeare's The Tempest) : Version for mezzo-soprano and ensemble / Elmer Schönberger; lyrics from William Shakespeare's The Tempest

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: mezzo fl/picc/fl-a cl/cl-b h perc hp pf 2vln vla vc db

Gezien Hercules Segers : for soprano and instrumental ensemble / Elmer Schönberger

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr 2cl(cl-b) h tpt pf hp cimbalom perc 2vn vla vc db

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