related works
Cascade (Symphony Nº 2) : Concerto for orchestra / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
piss 2fl 2ob eh 3cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3tpt 2trb-t trb-b tp timp perc hp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bar 3342 4431 timp perc 2hp str
Summer moon : for soprano and orchestra, 1992 / Otto Ketting
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2fl 2ob cl cl(cl-b) 2h hp perc str(6.6.4.4.2.)
Drie gedichten van Jan Luyken : (1649-1712), voor sopraan en orkest / Alexander Voormolen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2122 2000 perc cel pf 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