related works

Purple Heart : for orchestra / Douglas Knehans

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 2fl 2ob 2cl 2bsn 4h 2tpt 2trb-t trb-b tb timp perc(3) str

... e poi torna alla luce : for violin and piano / Robert Groslot

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

Trio no. VI : voor twee violen en piano, 1951 / Henk Badings

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring: 2vl pf

Stuzzicante : voor viool en piano / Rita Hijmans

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