related works
Black City : Concerto for violoncello and orchestra Nº 2 / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
vc-solo dulc pf hp sopr(offstage) 2fl(picc) 2ob 2cl 2fg(cfg) 4h 2tpt 2trb-t trb-b tb timp 3perc str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt 1010 0000 pf str
Ballade : alt en klein orkest / [tekst] Charles d'Orléans, H. Henkemans
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt 2120 2000 timp hp str(6.6.4.3.3.)
Drie liederen : met orkestbegeleiding / door Willem Andriessen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m 2222 4200 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