related works
Transparent Waves : for two pianos and two percussionists / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
2pf 2perc
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt/sopr-m 2223 4322 timp perc 2hp str
Tre psalmi : = (Trois psaumes) / Jacques Beers
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt 3333 2220 timp perc hp str
Mignon : ballade voor alt en orkest, 1884 / Alphons Diepenbrock
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt 0232 4000 str(vl vla vc)
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