related works

Concerto : for violin and two orchestras / Edward Top

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Violin and orchestra
Scoring: vl-solo 2picc(fl) 2ob cl(cl-b) fg(cfg) 2trp 2trb tb-b perc hp pf(synth) str

Drag on... claustrophobia : for soprano and ensemble / Rafael Reina

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr fl e.h vl vla vc cb 2perc

To you : for voice, guitars, keyboardinstruments, tops and electronics, opus 22, (1970-'72) / words: Adrian Mitchell, Peter Schat

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble; Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr-m 4pf 2el.org 6g 3g-b 6tops electronics

For the time being : for alto voice and ensemble of winds and percussion / Jan Guichelaar

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: alt 3230 4221 3perc 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