The saxophone /

This is a comprehensive study of one of the world's most iconic musical instruments, the saxophone. Cottrell examines the saxophone's full social, historical, and cultural trajectory and considers how and why this instrument, with its idiosyncratic shape and sound, should have become impor...

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Հիմնական հեղինակ: Cottrell, Stephen, 1962-
Ձևաչափ: Licensed eBooks
Լեզու:անգլերեն
Հրապարակվել է: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.
Շարք:Yale musical instrument series.
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Բովանդակություն:
  • Contents
  • Illustrations, music examples and tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations and conventions
  • Introduction: Saxophone essentials
  • Chapter 1 The life and times of Adolphe Sax
  • Chapter 2 The saxophone family
  • Chapter 3 The saxophone in the nineteenth century
  • Chapter 4 Early twentieth-century light and popular music
  • Chapter 5 The saxophone in jazz
  • Chapter 6 The classical saxophone
  • Chapter 7 Modernism and postmodernism
  • Chapter 8 The saxophone as symbol and icon
  • Appendix Adolphe Saxâ€?s 1846 saxophone patent
  • NotesBibliography
  • Index