related works

Bass Trombone Concerto : for bass trombone and orchestra / Edward Top

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Trombone and orchestra
Scoring: trb-b-solo 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2trp trb timp perc pf str

Inferno, I, 32 : for trio, ensemble and percussion, 1992 / text: Dante Alighieri, Jorge Luis Borges, Ron Ford

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

Denkmal an der Grenze des Fruchtlandes : (Songs and Interludes I), voor sopraan en kamerensemble, 1983-1987 / Alex Manassen

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr 1111 1110 pf vl vla vc cb

For the time being : for alto voice and ensemble of winds and percussion, 1990 / 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

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