related works
Purple Heart : for orchestra / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob 2cl 2bsn 4h 2tpt 2trb-t trb-b tb timp perc(3) str
Four Songs : for mezzo-soprano and small orchestra / Erik Lotichius; texts: Native American poetry
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
Mezzo-soprano and Small Orchestra: Flute; Oboe; Clarinets in B-flat; Bassoon; Horn in F; Trumpet in C; Timpani; Cymbals; Strings
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m 1000 0000 str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 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