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Seraphic Ride : for nine instruments / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
fl ob cl perc pf hrp vl vla vc
Friesland : voor lage stem en orkest, op. 44 / vier gedichten van Bertus Aafjes, Hans Schouwman
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
low 2222 1000 perc hp str
Kleine suite : voor sopraan en orkest, 1942 / Arij Verhaar
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2222 2200 timp perc (cel ad lib.) hp str
Uchtendhymne : Lied met orkestbegeleiding / Israel Olman; woorden van Pol de Mont
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
zang ork
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