The Saxophone by Stephen Cottrell – Free Pdf Doenl

List of illustrations, music examples and tables viii

Preface xv

Acknowledgements xix

Abbreviations and conventions xxi

Introduction: Saxophone essentials 1

1 The life and times of Adolphe Sax 10

2 The saxophone family 38

3 The saxophone in the nineteenth century 92

4 Early twentieth-century light and popular music 133

5 The saxophone in jazz 183

6 The classical saxophone 228

7 Modernism and postmodernism 264

8 The saxophone as symbol and icon 306

Appendix: Adolphe Sax’s 1846 saxophone patent 343

Notes 349

Bibliography 373

Index 381

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