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

Chant Ascendant : for soprano (or two alternating sopranos) and ensemble / Peter Adriaansz; text by Jacques Prévert

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr/2sopr 1110 0000 2perc man g hp pf/cemb vl vla vc cb

Dodo : kleines Bestiarium Noachs, für Bass-Bariton und Ensemble, 1996 / Text [und deutsche Übersetzung von] Friso Haverkamp, Guus Janssen

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: bas-bar 1110 sax-t crt 2perc pf 2vl vla vc cb

Urban songs : soprano, large ensemble, computers / Klas Torstensson

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble; Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr(synth) 2pic(fl) ob eh cl-b cl-cb fg(cfg) 2sax h 2trp trb tb 2perc g-b pf keyboard 2vl vla vc cb computers

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