related works

A Life in a Day : for harpsichord and string orchestra / Edward Top

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Harpsichord and string orchestra
Scoring: cemb 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

Dodo's groove : (voorstudie van Noach), voor bas solo en instrumentaal ensemble, 1991 / tekst van Friso Haverkamp, Guus Janssen

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: bas 0011 2sax 1010 crt 2perc g hp pf 2vl vla vc cb

A crossing place : for mezzo-soprano and instrumental ensemble, 1989 / Frank de Munnik

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr-m 1121 1110 perc hp pf vl vla vc cb

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