related works
My Skeletonized Portrait : for violin and orchestra / Edward Top
	
			Genre: 
		
		Orchestra
	
			Subgenre: 
		
		Violin and orchestra
	
			Scoring: 
		
		vl-solo 3fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3trp 2trb trb-b tb timp 3perc hp cel str
	
Suite des farces : (pour petit-orchestre) / Simon Pluister
	
			Genre: 
		
		Orchestra
	
			Subgenre: 
		
		Orchestra
	
			Scoring: 
		
		2121 2110 perc pf(cel cemb) str(5.4.3.2.1.)
	
Akoetest : voor symfonieorkest / Jan Masséus
	
			Genre: 
		
		Orchestra
	
			Subgenre: 
		
		Orchestra
	
			Scoring: 
		
		3333 4331 timp perc hp pf str
	
Secret instructions : for orchestra, 1992, revision 1993 / Maarten Altena
	
			Genre: 
		
		Orchestra
	
			Subgenre: 
		
		Orchestra
	
			Scoring: 
		
		3333 sax-bar 4330 2perc mar pf str
	
composition
				Eruption : for orchestra / Edward Top
			
					
										Other authors:
									
									
									Top, Edward
									(Composer)
								
							
							Description:
						
						
						This piece in itself is an eruption, a celebration of the intense outbreak of youthful vigor, capturing a tour de force of speed that does not diminish for the entire duration. It is the raw and unrestrained crest of musical heights that is captured in the fleeting moment of an eruption.
The idea came about when, by chance, I discovered a striking similarity between cadences in the Ars Nova style, a French medieval musical style, compared to power chords of the modern-day Heavy Metal genre, where the use of parallel perfect fifths plays a pivotal role in its unmistakable sound. The experience might be likened to a modern painter creating cave drawings even when many developments in skill and style have since transpired. It was this primal yet contemporary approach that justified the transforming of elements from the extreme metal subgenre such as blastbeat drumming (intense sixteenth-note strokes on the snare drum), chromatically moving power chords and metrical shifts, into a contemporary symphonic esthetic.   
Eruption is commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for joint performances by the TSO and the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. It will be performed in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal during the 150th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada in 2017.  Eruption was composed with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Edward Top, Vancouver (October 2016)