related works
Lumen : for cello and piano / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Cello and keyboard instrument
Ode : per contralto e orchestra / [testo] Bert Voeten, Henri Zagwijn
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt 2322 4210 timp 2perc str
Oratio : voor hoge stem en orkest / Anthon van der Horst
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
high 2333 3330 timp perc hp str
Splinters : for soprano and orchestra / René Samson ; on a poem by Alissa Valles
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2fl fl(pic) 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3trp 2trb trb-b tb timp perc pf(cel) hp 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