related works
Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sop eh tpt 2perc hp str
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vl pf
Song (without words) nr. 3 : for violin or viola and piano, 1991 / Maarten Bon
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin and keyboard instrument; Viola and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vl pf / vla pf
Herz : voor viool en piano (1996) / Geert van Keulen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vl pf
composition
Mist Waves : for violin and piano / Douglas Knehans
Other authors:
Knehans, Douglas
(Composer)
Description:
Mist Waves is a kind of loose chaconne whose veiled repetition of the initial eight bars forms the basis for the work. Sometimes this initial idea is repeated entirely, sometimes truncated sometimes expanded and all of the time at close interplay with the freely evolving violin line which acts as the expressive core of the work.
Mist Waves is really about land-based cloud and how this forms in waves sometimes thick and predictable and at other times lightening up and revealing more to us. This serves as a metaphor for me of a type of human consciousness and how things are known and unknown to us in mixtures—sometimes equal, frequently unequal—which creates the mystery and magic of life.
Douglas Knehans