related works
Mist Waves : for violin and piano / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vn pf
1494 : for voice and instrumental ensemble, 1992-1993 / Kim Bowman
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble; Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr(perc) 1001 2200 2perc hp pf vl vla vc cb / sopr(perc) 1001 2200 2perc hp pf str
Drei romantische Lieder : Sopran, Orchester / [Text] (H. Heine), Robert de Roos
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2332 4220 timp perc hp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
high 2332 4230 timp 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