The Saxophone

By: Stephen Cottrell

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Hardcover | 15 January 2013 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"Everything you wanted to know about sax - but were afraid to ask."-The New York Post * The New York Post *
Winner of the Bessaraboff Prize given by the American Musical Instrument Society. -- American Musical Instrument Society * Bessaraboff Prize *

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Non-Fiction Arts & Entertainment Music Musical Instruments & Instrumental Ensembles Wind Instruments

List of illustrations, music examples and tables	p. viii
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xix
Abbreviations and conventions	p. xxi
Introduction: Saxophone essentials	p. 1
The life and times of Adolphe Sax	p. 10
The saxophone family	p. 38
The saxophone in the nineteenth century	p. 92
Early twentieth-century light and popular music	p. 133
The saxophone in jazz	p. 183
The classical saxophone	p. 228
Modernism and postmodernism	p. 264
The saxophone as symbol and icon	p. 306
Appendix: Adolphe Sax's 1846 saxophone patent	p. 343
Notes	p. 349
Bibliography	p. 373
Index	p. 381
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