The Saxophone (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Yale University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Yale Musical Instrument Series
Release date:	2013
First published:	February 2013
Authors:	Stephen Cottrell
Dimensions:	244 x 171 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	352
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-300-10041-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles > Wind instruments > General Books > Music > Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles > Wind instruments > General
LSN:	0-300-10041-8
Barcode:	9780300100419

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