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
Concert voor strijkorkest en viool solo : (1970-'71) / Robert Dispa
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Violin and string orchestra
Scoring:
str vl-solo
Violin Concerto : Version for violin and string orchestra / Frédéric Devreese
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Violin and string orchestra
Scoring:
vl str
Symfonietta : for strings / Erik Lotichius
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Violin and string orchestra
Scoring:
vl-solo str
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