related works
Fog Shadows : for mezzo-soprano and piano / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
m-sop pf
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
Groet der martelaren : hymne voor baryton & orkest / Guillaume Landré
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bar 3222 4231 timp perc str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 3322 4330 timp 3perc 2hp cel 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