related works
Black City : Concerto for violoncello and orchestra Nº 2 / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
vc-solo dulc pf hp sopr(offstage) 2fl(picc) 2ob 2cl 2fg(cfg) 4h 2tpt 2trb-t trb-b tb timp 3perc str
To an old love : for a mezzo soprano with orchestra, opus 32, 1947/48 / Marius Flothuis
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m 1032 sax-a 2320 timp hp str
Sine nomine : for soprano & chamber orchestra, (1973) / Enrique Raxach
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra; Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr 2222 sax-a 2220 2perc el.g hp man ham.org cemb (pf synth ad lib.) str(8.5.5.4.2.) tape
Two Songs and a Tear : for 3 sopranos and orchestra / Guus Janssen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
3sopr pic fl ob cl cl-b fg h trp trb 3perc 2vl vla vc cb
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