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Leviathan is in two movements: a slow opening movement (“Awakening”) and a fast second movement (“The Hunt”). The introduction of the first movement incorporates harmonic series in the horns and tubas which use notes which are out-of-tune with the rest of the ensemble. (Horn and tuba players normally change fingerings to correct those out-of-tune notes, but that is not done here.) The second movement is a chaconne — a form based on a repeating chord progression. The chord progression heard at the beginning of the movement is heard, in various forms, in the seven variations that follow.
The LSU Wind Ensemble (Damon Talley, Director) premiered Leviathan on November 29, 2023.