Saxophone Organology
This was the first saxophone invented and shown in an instrument patent faire in 1839 but was subsequently knocked and damaged. The saxophone does not appear again until 1842.
What is the Bass Saxophone?
It is commonly accepted that this mouthpiece receives the pitch of a concert A.
What is the classical alto saxophone mouthpiece pitch?
Adolphe Sax was born in this country in 1814.
Belgium
An early proponent of the saxophone, this person also wrote a treatise on instrumentation that was widely considered a definitive source for orchestration.
Hector Berlioz
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12 - Bar Blues
This is why the saxophone overblows an octave as opposed to a 12th like the clarinet.
What is a conical bore?
Scales are practiced for this purpose. Hint: there are 3 parts.
What is technique, tone, and intonation.
Adolph Sax revolutionized this "genre" of music due to his invention of the saxophone and sax horns.
Military Bands
This composer wrote the first saxophone quartet and many of the earliest solos for saxophone as final exam pieces for the Paris conservatory.
Who is Jean-Baptiste Singelee
This alto saxophonists was the lead alto for the Duke Ellington Big Band
Who is Johnny Hodges.
When the saxophone was invented it originally only went up to this note.
What is high Eb?
This fundamental exercise is integral to develop tone throughout the register of the instrument, and is a foundational building block to eventually climbing into the altissimo register.
What are Overtones!
Aldophe Sax learned his early instrument making skills from this individual.
His father, who was the instrument make to the king of Belgium.
Rumored to have been written for viola, this piece features both alto saxophone and viola parts, and was written by a woman who wrote over 40 works for the saxophone.
Sonate en Ut# (1943) by Fernande Decruck
While there are some tenor players that are active before them, these 2 tenor saxophonists are often considered the fathers of jazz tenor.
Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young
The saxophones fingering system is based on the following system.
What is the Boehm fingering system?
He wrote some of the first unified methods for saxophone including The Art of Saxophone Playing and The Saxophonist's Workbook.
Who is Larry Teal?
Almost dying nearly 15 times before inventing the saxophone. One of the more notable instances, as a child of 3 he mistook acid or mercury for Milk and drank an entire bowl! This many brushes with death gave him an unfortunate nickname in his home town.
What is "the ghost child of Dinant"
Another prominent saxophonist who was known for commissioning many works and introduced the use of vibrato to the classical side of the instrument.
Who is Marcel Mule?
Emerging from a reaction to the large venues closing and smaller ensembles being needed for gigs, this genre was pioneered by musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach, and Bud Powell.
What is Bebop?
The saxophone is Patented by Adolph Sax in this year
1846
It is literally impossible to do this extended technique with bad air.
What is flutter tonguing
Sax was instrumental in the construction of perfecting the construction of this other instrument.
What is the Bass Clarinet.
This woman saxophonist originally started to play the saxophone as a prescription to help her breathing. Later, she went on to commission a number of incredibly important works within the saxophone repertoire.
Who is Elise Hall?
This famous jazz pianist and band leader was born in Red Bank, New Jersey in 1904.
Who is Count Basie.