related works

Cascade (Symphony Nº 2) : Concerto for orchestra / Douglas Knehans

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: piss 2fl 2ob eh 3cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3tpt 2trb-t trb-b tp timp perc hp str

Tema con variazioni : per violine e pianoforte, aug. 1938 / Koos van de Griend

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring: vl pf

Suite : for violin and piano, 1991 / Janine Mehrtens

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring: vl pf

Berceuse & Finale : Version for violin and piano / Frédéric Devreese

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin and keyboard instrument

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