The Saxophone

By:

Stephen Cottrell

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Hardback

Series:

Yale Musical Instrument Series

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Description

In the first fully comprehensive study of one of the world’s most iconic musical instruments, Stephen Cottrell examines the saxophone’s various social, historical, and cultural trajectories, and illustrates how and why this instrument, with its idiosyncratic shape and sound, became important for so many different music-makers around the world. After considering what led inventor Adolphe Sax to develop this new musical wind instrument, Cottrell explores changes in saxophone design since the 1840s before examining the instrument's role in a variety of contexts: in the military bands that contributed so much to the saxophone's global dissemination during the nineteenth century; as part of the rapid expansion of American popular music around the turn of the twentieth century; in classical and contemporary art music; in world and popular music; and, of course, in jazz, a musical style with which the saxophone has become closely identified.

Author Biography:

Stephen Cottrell is a saxophonist and professor of music at City University London.

Release date Australia

January 15th, 2013

Author

Stephen Cottrell

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

352

Series

Yale Musical Instrument Series

Dimensions

18x25x3

ISBN-13

9780300100419

Product ID

19842296

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