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

Grenzeloos : voor sopraan en fanfareorkest, 1991 / Bernard van Beurden

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble; Voice and wind band
Scoring: sopr 0000 4sax 3333 3bug timp perc

.. 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

High octane : for voice and ensemble (both amplified), 1997 / on words by the composer, David Dramm

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: voice 1121 1111 perc g-b hp pf(synth) 2vl vla vc cb

composition

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

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