related works
Mist Waves : Version for cello and strings / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Cello and string orchestra
Scoring:
vc str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr/sopr-m 2222 0000 str(vl vla vc)
Notenkrakers' notulen : for soprano and orchestra / Bram Kortekaas; text by Lex Bohlmeijer
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-solo 2fl(picc) 2ob(eh) 2cl(cl-b) 2fg(cfg) 2h 2tpt trb-t trb-b timp 2perc pf/cel hp str
Plegaria : for mezzo-soprano and orchestra / Oswin 'Chin' Behilia; arr. by Randal Corsen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
3fl 3ob 3cl 3bsn 4h 3trb tb timp perc(3) hrp pf voice str
composition
Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Other authors:
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