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The soprano saxophone is a small, high-pitched member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented in the 1840s by Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax. [ 1 ] 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 ...
Soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, voice. Labels. Shanachie Records. Warner Bros. Records. Mercury Records. Headsup/Affable Records. Website. walterbeasley.com. Walter Beasley (born May 24, 1961) is an American saxophonist, a professor of music at the Berklee College of Music, and founder of Affable Publishing and Affable Records.
Steve Lacy (saxophonist) Steve Lacy (born Steven Norman Lackritz; July 23, 1934 – June 4, 2004) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone. [1] Coming to prominence in the 1950s as a progressive dixieland musician, Lacy went on to a long and prolific career.
Yanagisawa [1] The sopranino saxophone is the second-smallest member of the saxophone family. It is tuned in the key of E♭, and sounds an octave higher than the alto saxophone. A sopranino in F was also described in Adolphe Sax's patent, an octave above an F alto (mezzo-soprano), but there are no known built instruments. [2]
Saxophonist, flutist, bandleader, educator, composer. Instrument (s) Tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, alto flute. Website. davidliebman.com. David Liebman (born September 4, 1946) is an American saxophonist, flautist and jazz educator. [1] He is known for his innovative lines and use of atonality.
The Soprano Sax Concerto is a concerto for soprano saxophone and orchestra by the American composer Jennifer Higdon. The work was originally commissioned by the Minnesota Commissioning Club as Higdon's Oboe Concerto and was premiered by oboist Kathy Greenbank and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in 2005. Higdon later reworked the composition ...
Classical music. Occupation (s) Musician, composer, professor. Instrument (s) Alto saxophone. Soprano saxophone. Eugene Ellsworth Rousseau (August 23, 1932 – August 26, 2024) was an American classical saxophonist. He played mainly the alto and soprano saxophones, [1] though early in his career he was equally active as a clarinetist.
Soprano saxophone in C sounds as written. The C soprano saxophone is a member of the saxophone family, invented in 1846. It closely resembles the more common B ♭ soprano saxophone but is pitched a whole step higher. Unlike most other saxophones, it is not a transposing instrument, a quality it shares with the C melody (also called C tenor ...