related works

Eruption : for orchestra / Edward Top

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 2fl(picc) 2ob cl cl-b 2fg 4h 2trp 2trb trb-b timp 3perc hp str

.. 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

John Clare : for tenor and 15 instruments, 2000/2001 / text: John Clare, Jacques Bank

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: ten 1121 1110 perc pf 2vl vla vc cb

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

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