The saxophone [electronic resource] / Stephen Cottrell.
2012
ML975 .C67 2012eb
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Title
The saxophone [electronic resource] / Stephen Cottrell.
Author
Cottrell, Stephen, 1962-
ISBN
9780300190953 (electronic book)
9780300100419
9780300100419
Publication Details
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxii, 390 p.) : ill., ports., music.
Call Number
ML975 .C67 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
788.7
Summary
In the first fully comprehensive study of one of the world's most iconic musical instruments, Stephen 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. After considering what led inventor Adolph Sax to develop a new musical wind instrument, Cottrell explores changes in saxophone design over years and examines the instrument's role in a variety of contexts: the military bands that played a crucial role in the saxophone's global dissemination during the nineteenth century; the saxophone craze in American popular music around the turn of the twentieth century; in classical and contemporary art music; in world music; and of course in jazz, a musical style with which the saxophone has become closely identified.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
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Description based on print version record.
Series
Yale musical instrument series.
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Saxophone.
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Table of Contents
The life and times of Adolphe Sax
The saxophone family
The saxophone in the nineteenth century
Early twentieth-century light and popular music
The saxophone in jazz
The classical saxophone
Modernism and postmodernism
The saxophone as symbol and icon.
The saxophone family
The saxophone in the nineteenth century
Early twentieth-century light and popular music
The saxophone in jazz
The classical saxophone
Modernism and postmodernism
The saxophone as symbol and icon.