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Saxophone Quartet (1994)—Richard Rodney Bennett [22] Saxophone Quartet No.3 – Dansere omkring Jupiter (Dancers around Jupiter) (1995)—Per Nørgård; Variations (On Several Lines by Amy Clampitt (1995)—Sidney Corbett; Short Stories (1995)—Jennifer Higdon; 4our Dedicated to Stockholm Saxophone Quartet (2016)—Arshia Samsaminia [50]
The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass.As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to produce a sound wave inside the instrument's body.
The House is located in the birthplace of Sax, Dinant, in the French language part of Belgium. Near the House and in other places in Dinant, artwork reminds of his connection with the city. On both sides of the Charles de Gaulle Bridge a number of huge artworks of colourful saxophones are presented. The name of the tourist flyer is Sax and the ...
The soprillo (also known as the piccolo or sopranissimo saxophone) is the smallest saxophone, developed as an extension to the saxophone family in the late 1990s by German instrument maker Benedikt Eppelsheim. It is 33 cm (13 in) long including the mouthpiece, and pitched in B♭ one octave above the soprano saxophone.
Built in B♭ an octave above the tenor saxophone (or rarely, slightly smaller in C), the soprano is the third-smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists (from smallest to largest) of the soprillo, sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass, and subcontrabass. The soprillo and sopranino are rare instruments, making ...
Themen was born in Manchester, England, where he was involved with the traditional jazz scene in the late 1950s [4] as a self-taught musician, [5] having started playing clarinet as a schoolboy at Manchester Grammar School.
The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in the key of E ♭ , smaller than the B ♭ tenor but larger than the B ♭ soprano .
Lefèbre went on to form his own saxophone quartet in 1905 with a repertoire of transcriptions. [1] The main impetus for the recognition of this ensemble was by Marcel Mule, who was the second Professor of saxophone at the Paris Conservatoire after Adolphe Sax himself. In 1928, he founded Le Quatuor de la Musique de la Garde Républicaine ...