The Saxophone (Yale Musical Instrument Series)

The Saxophone (Yale Musical Instrument Series)

<P>In the first fully comprehensive study of one of the worldâ€™s most iconic musical instruments, Stephen Cottrell examines the saxophoneâ€™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. </P><P>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.
Country USA
Brand Yale University Press
Manufacturer Yale University Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 35532826
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780300100419
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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