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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Yale musical instrument series.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=518267 |
Table of Contents:
- 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 Sax�s 1846 saxophone patent
- NotesBibliography
- Index