Author : Michael Segell
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,14 MB
Release : 2006-08-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780312425579
Traces the history of the saxophone from its invention by the eccentric Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in the 1840s to its role in the jazz genre in the twenty-first century.
Author : Stephen Cottrell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300190956
In the first fully comprehensive study of one of the world's most iconic musical instruments, Stephen Cottrell examines the saxophone's various social, historical, and cultural trajectories, and illustrates how and why this instrument, with its idiosyncratic shape and sound, became important for so many different music-makers around the world.After considering what led inventor Adolphe Sax to develop this new musical wind instrument, Cottrell explores changes in saxophone design since the 1840s before examining the instrument's role in a variety of contexts: in the military bands that contributed so much to the saxophone's global dissemination during the nineteenth century; as part of the rapid expansion of American popular music around the turn of the twentieth century; in classical and contemporary art music; in world and popular music; and, of course, in jazz, a musical style with which the saxophone has become closely identified.
Author : Tim Armacost
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 2022
Category :
ISBN : 9780991077380
A complete method for learning to play jazz on your saxophone
Author : Paul DeVille
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486823946
A trusted training method for aspiring and serious players, "The Saxophone Bible" covers tuning, tone production, fingering, breath control, playing low and high ranges, scales, intervals, and much more.
Author : Paul Lindemeyer
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Music
ISBN :
"Who can resist the call of the saxophone? This expressive instrument is at the very heart of 20th-century music. Celebrating the Saxophone is a colorful and affectionate look at its richly diverse history. Paul Lindemeyer follows its progress from the 1840s Paris workshop of Adolphe Sax, through years of obscurity in band music, to its eventual fame in 1920s America, to the election of a sax-playing President." "The saxophone is best known as the symbol - and musical standard-bearer - of jazz. Celebrating the Saxophone illustrates its role in the music from early times - when Sidney Bechet became the pioneer jazz saxman - to the present, when artists like Branford Marsalis have won unparalleled public acceptance. The saxophone's development as the creative jazz voice is traced in profiles of its great innovators - among them Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane. Yet jazz is only part of the story. Classical saxophonists have been gaining long-overdue acceptance. And the horn has played many roles in popular music - from the ragtime virtuosity of Rudy Wiedoeft, to the big band era, to the ever-popular David Sanborn."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Jeff Coffin
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,48 MB
Release : 2016-09-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780998073903
THE SAXOPHONE BOOK comes from the innovative and creative mind of 3x Grammy winning saxophonist Jeff Coffin (Dave Matthews Band/Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, the Mu'tet). This 3-volume set is an extraordinarily thoughtful dissection and presentation of the musical fundamentals that Jeff calls "The Big 5 ."
Author : Jeff Coffin
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 39,13 MB
Release : 2016-09-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780998073910
Written with students, educators, and pros in mind, the information in THE SAXOPHONE BOOK has already benefitted thousands of saxophone players around the world. TSB is a comprehensive study of the fundamentals of music and, in particular, the saxophone. These concepts have been fine tuned by Jeff Coffin over the course of the 300+ clinics (and countless lessons) that he has presented worldwide over the last 20+ years as a solo, Yamaha and D'Addario performing artist.
Author : Richard Ingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 1999-02-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107494052
The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone, first published in 1999, tells the story of the saxophone, its history and technical development from Adolphe Sax (who invented it c. 1840) to the end of the twentieth century. It includes extensive accounts of the instrument's history in jazz, rock and classical music as well as providing practical performance guides. Discussion of the repertoire and soloists from 1850 to the present day includes accessible descriptions of contemporary techniques and trends, and moves into the electronic age with midi wind instruments. There is a discussion of the function of the saxophone in the orchestra, in 'light music' and in rock and pop studios, as well as of the saxophone quartet as an important chamber music medium. The contributors to this volume are some of the finest performers and experts on the saxophone.
Author : John Robert Brown
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 21,56 MB
Release : 2002-08-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780312300494
Basic guide to proper methods of playing the saxophone.
Author : Larry Teal
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 34,20 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781457400261
According to Larry Teal, the best method of learning to play the saxophone is to study with a competent teacher. Teal's studies were mostly of instruments other than the saxophone, but as a student at a Chautauqua summer session, he came under the influence of Georges Barrère, the eminent French flutist. He played bass clarinet with the Detroit Symphony, but he continued to be absorbed by the saxophone. As a result of his acquired expertise and growing reputation, he was appointed to a full-time faculty position as a saxophone teacher by the University of Michigan -- the first ever to receive such an appointment from a major university. During his 21-year tenure, he attracted students from all over, thus exerting an ever widening influence on saxophone teaching and performing.
