related works
Concerto : for guitar, orchestra and concertino / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Guitar and orchestra
Scoring:
gtr-solo picc/fl ob cl-b/cl h tpt-picc 2perc cemb trb-b tb-b str
De Fluitspeler : for voice and orchestra / Sem Dresden; words by Jules Schürmann
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
voice orch
Arno-Holz-Lieder : für Alt und Orchester, 1972-73 / Jacques G. Goosen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt 2221 2sax 1210 timp 2perc cel vibr hp g cemb harm str(8.4.4.0.)
Nuit de l'enfer / Roderik de Man
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
ten
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