Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 390 pages)
,
illustrations
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300100418
,
0300190956
,
1283906511
,
9780300100419
,
9780300190953
,
9781283906517
Serie:
The Yale musical instrument series
Inhalt:
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
Inhalt:
""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
Inhalt:
""Notes""""Bibliography""; ""Index
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-380) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cottrell, Stephen, 1962- Saxophone New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
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