related works
Ripple – Symphony 1 : for large orchestra / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
picc 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 2tpt trb-t trb-b tb timp 4perc pf str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bar 2332 4331 timp perc hp str
Thyestes : for baritone and orchestra / Calliope Tsoupaki; on text fragments from Thyestes by Seneca
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bar-solo picc 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg 4h 3trp 3trb tb perc hp pf str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bar(recit) fl pic 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg 4h 3trp 3trb timp perc hp 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