EMILY HOWARD
Leviathan for Baritone Saxophone and Percussion (2015)
Performing Score
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INSTRUMENTATION Baritone Saxophone Percussion (1 player): 1 Cymbal, firmly suspended 1 Hybrid Bass Bow/Metal Reibstock* 1 Tibetan Singing Bowl * It is recommended that the metal reibstock is a low piano string from the bottom octave of a piano. However, suitable equivalents can be used as well. The metal reibstock should be attached to the back (the wooden part) of the bass bow, with tape at each end fixing the reibstock firmly so that it doesn’t move. The reibstock should be the length of the ‘haired’ part of the bow.
Transposed Score
Duration: 13ʹ
First performed on 14th May 2015 by scapegoat (Joshua Hyde, Saxophone – Noam Bierstone, Percussion) at La Vitrola, Montreal, as part of the scapegoat North American Tour, May 2015 a recording of Leviathan, given by scapegoat, is available on NMC debut disc Magnetite [NMC D219], NMC Recordings
PROGRAMME NOTE In Leviathan (2014–15), baritone saxophone split-tones and cymbal multiphonics collide in the creation of a newly-formed and unpredictable musical language, which responds to recent mathematical research in dynamical systems. Originally written for one particular cymbal to be played with a hybrid bass bow/metal reibstock, various harmonics are generated through the placement of a Tibetan singing bowl in different positions on the cymbal’s surface in combination with changing the bow’s contact angle. I am grateful for so many helpful conversations with scapegoat, mathematicians Lasse Rempe-Gillen and Alexandre DeZotti (University of Liverpool), and support from the Royal Northern College of Music and The Leverhulme Trust (Artist in Residence Scheme). Leviathan lasts approximately 13 minutes and is dedicated to scapegoat (Joshua Hyde and Noam Bierstone) and was first performed by them as part of the scapegoat North American Tour, May 2015 (Montreal, Toronto, Detroit, Chicago and New York). Leviathan recieved its European premiere at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2015 (scapegoat / hcmf shorts). Emily Howard, 2015
PERFORMANCE NOTES Baritone Saxophone Notation of split-tones °› 5 & 16 ‰
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Transposed Score
for Joshua Hyde and Noam Bierstone aka scapegoat
Leviathan Emily Howard
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