related works
Unfinished Earth : Symphony Nº 3 for large orchestra / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
picc 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 4tpt 2trb-t trb-b tb timp 3perc pf hp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m 2232 2sax 3330 timp perc hp str
6 Kerstliederen : voor mezzo sopraan en orkest / Piet Kingma
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2fl fl(fl-a) ob 2ob(eh) 2cl cl(cl-b) 2fg 4h 3trp 3trb 2tb 2timp perc vibr 2hp 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