The Saxophone
1st Edition
Published on 5. February 2013
352 pages
978-0-300-19095-3 (ISBN)
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Content
- Intro
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
