related works
Tempest : Concerto for flute and orchestra / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Flute and orchestra
Scoring:
fl-solo 2fl(picc) ob eh cl cl-b fg cfg 2h tpt trb trb-b tbb timp 2perc hp str
Sonnet : voor tenor of sopraan en orkest, 1898 / Alphons Diepenbrock
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
high 3232 4001 timp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
medium fl(pic) fl 2ob 2cl cl-b fg fg(cfg) 3h perc hp str(8-10.6-8.4-6.3-5.2-4.)
L' allegria : for voice and orchestra, 1967 / poetry by Giuseppe Ungaretti, Hans Kox
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 3fl trp str(12.10.6.6.4.)
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