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Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sop eh tpt 2perc hp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt 2fl fl-a 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg 4h 4trp 3trb tb timp perc cel vibr mar hp str(10.10.8.6.4.)
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
medium 3trb perc str
Er rauscht und rauscht : for voice and orchestra / Rosy Wertheim; words by Anna Ritter
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
zang picc 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h timp hp cel str
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