related works
Unfinished Earth : Symphony Nº 3 for large orchestra / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
picc 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 4tpt 2trb-t trb-b tb timp 3perc pf hp str
Glenz : for violin solo and string orchestra, 1993 / Willem Jeths
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Violin and string orchestra
Scoring:
str vl-solo
Wie der alte Leiermann : for violin solo and string orchestra / Leonid Desyatnikov
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Violin and string orchestra
Scoring:
vn-solo str
Six concertos, opus V / edited by Robert L. Tusler, Willem de Fesch
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Flute and string orchestra; Violin and string orchestra
Scoring:
str bc 2fl-solo : str bc vl-solo
composition
Mist Waves : Version for violin and strings / 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