Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 390 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300100418
,
0300190956
,
1283906511
,
9780300100419
,
9780300190953
,
9781283906517
Series Statement:
The Yale musical instrument series
Content:
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
Content:
""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
Content:
""Notes""""Bibliography""; ""Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-380) and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cottrell, Stephen, 1962- Saxophone New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013
Language:
English
URL:
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