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Author Cottrell, Stephen, 1962-

Title The saxophone / Stephen Cottrell
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 390 pages) : illustrations
Series The Yale musical instrument series
Yale musical instrument series.
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
Summary 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 important for so many different music-makers around the world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-380) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Sax, Adolphe, 1814-1894.
Sax, Adolphe, 1814-1894
Saxophone -- History
MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- Woodwinds.
Saxophone
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300190953
0300190956
9781283906517
1283906511