related works
Cascade : for two pianos / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
2pf
Three Michelangelo songs : for mezzo-soprano and orchestra / Tristan Keuris
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m 2222 2100 2perc hp str(8.6.4.4.2.)
De groote vogel : voor bariton en orkest / [muziek] Andries de Braal, [tekst] J.J. de Stoppelaar
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bar 1100 2000 str
To an old love : for a mezzo soprano with orchestra, opus 32, 1947/48 / Marius Flothuis
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m 1032 sax-a 2320 timp hp str
composition
Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Author(s):
Knehans, Katarina
(Text writer/Librettist)
Knehans, Douglas
(Composer)
Description:
Cloud Ossuary began as a setting of my daughter’s riveting and poignant poem Bones and All. When I first read this work, I was seized with an immediate desire to set it to music. So, almost as immediately I did indeed get to work on it.
The Ossein Cage, composed after the two movements that follow it, uses the same harmonic architecture as both subsequent movements, while Breathe Clouded is actually an inverted and compressed version of Bones and All. Thus, the whole of Cloud Ossuary sits as three different guises of the same material and structural approach, though with clear and dramatically different surfaces.
Douglas Knehans