| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 390 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
The Yale musical instrument series |
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Yale musical instrument series.
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| 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 |
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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.
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Sax, Adolphe, 1814-1894 |
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Saxophone -- History
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MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- Woodwinds.
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Saxophone
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780300190953 |
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0300190956 |
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9781283906517 |
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1283906511 |
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