related works

Lumen : for cello and piano / Douglas Knehans

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Cello and keyboard instrument

Pas de deux : pour 2 violons et l'orchestre à cordes, 2004 / Bernard van Beurden

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Violin and string orchestra
Scoring: str 2vl-solo

Concertos, opus III / edited by Robert L. Tusler, Willem de Fesch

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Two or more different solo instruments and orchestra; Violin and string orchestra
Scoring: No.1: str bc 2vl-vla-solo, No. 2,4: str bc 2ob-fg-solo, No. 3,5: str bc 4vl-vla-solo, No. 6: str bc vl-solo

Eight concertos, opus X / edited by Robert L. Tusler, Willem de Fesch

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: String orchestra; Violin and string orchestra; Flute and string orchestra; Flute and string orchestra
Scoring: str bc : str bc 2vl-solo : str bc fl-solo : str bc 2fl-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