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
Lament : Epistle - version for violin and piano / Jakub Polaczyk
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vl pf
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano; Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
pf pf4h 2pf vl and pf
Sexty : for violin and piano, 2000 / Wim de Ruiter
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vl pf
composition
Mist Waves : for violin and piano / Douglas Knehans
Author(s):
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