Repertoire
Sigurd Rascher and Marcel Mule had a fuede over who premiered this work.
What is the Ibert...?
This fundamental exercise featuring only a small part of the instrument builds tone and stability throughout the range of the instrument and should be played every day!
What is mouthpiece buzzing?
These are the 3 paragons of each prominent "school of saxophone." (French, German, and American)
Who are Marcel Mule, Sigurd Rascher, and Larry Teal?
Adolphe Sax was born in this country in 1814.
Belgium
This is the only record where Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane played together
This standard work features movements that take inspirations from different scenes/pictures from the composers vacation.
What is the Tableaux?
Overtones, long tones, pitch imagination, and front key work all work towards unlocking this.
This person played for the National Guard band in Paris, as well as is the second professor of the Paris Conservatory.
Who is Marcel Mule?
Aldophe Sax learned his early instrument making skills from this individual.
His Father
| I ii | ii V | I ii | ii V |
| I IV | IV iv6 | I ii | ii V |
| I ii | ii V | I ii | ii V |
| I IV | IV iv6 | I V | I |
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|V7/V | | V7 | |
| I ii | ii V | I ii | ii V |
| I IV | IV iv6 | I ii | ii V |
What are rhythm changes
This work was the first quartet written for saxophones.
What is the Premiere Quator by Singelee
This part of the embouchure should have the most "tension" or effort given to it.
What are the corners?
This famous saxophonist was one of the first well known female saxophonists who commissioned a great many works for saxophone in the early 1900s. One prominent commission includes the Rhapsody by Claude Debussy.
Who is Elise Hall?
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.
Who is the Ghost of Dinant?
If you trace the lineage back of all Tenor Saxophonists you can almost always track them back to these two tenor players.
Who is Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young?
This etude book is fantastic for the 20th century saxophonist to work on Messiaen's limited modes of transposition.
What are the 28 etudes by Guy Lacour?
"nee nee nee nee nee"
How should we think about articulation?
This saxophonist was the first to win the Young Concert Artists National Competition which propelled his career into the limelight of saxophone.
The Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone to have these qualities.
Name 3 prominent jazz baritone saxophonists.
Nick Brignola, Gary Smulyan, Gerry Mulligan, Pepper Adams, etc.
This piece was written as part of a consortium of three works that expanded and challenged the technical capabilities of the saxophonist. This work features allusion to baroque forms, a lament for a fellow composers passing, folk lore, and opera. It is notoriously difficult to perform and put with piano.
What is the Albright Sonata?
Flutter Tonguing helps with this aspect of saxophone playing.
What is air support?
This famous composer included the saxophone in his famous Treatise of Instruments in the late 1800s, but only ever included the bass saxophone in 1 work.
Who is Berlioz?
The saxophone is based on this instrument that Adolphe Sax put a bass clarinet mouthpiece on.
What is the Ophicleide?
This Titan in the jazz genre was born in Washington D.C. in 1899. Additionally he has been called America's most important composer by the likes of Gunther Schuller, Ralph Gleason, and others. This composer/band leader famously said "There is no art without intention."
Who is Duke Ellington?