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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 .
Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano [25] Alban Berg Sonata for Piano, Op. 1 [26] Wozzeck [26] [27] Carlos Chávez Sinfonía de Antígona (Symphony No. 1), uses quartal harmony throughout [28] Sinfonía india (Symphony No. 2), the A-minor Sonora melody beginning in b. 183 is accompanied by quartal harmonies [29] Aaron Copland Of Mice and Men [30]
Composer Title Duration Saxophone Scoring Premiere Date First Performer Birkenkötter, Jörg: Triple Concerto (2002-3) 30' sop/alto/bar-2003-11-14, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, RSO Stuttgart/Peter Rundel
Chromatic scale drawn as a circle The diatonic scale notes (above) and the non-scale chromatic notes (below) [2] The twelve notes of the octave—all the black and white keys in one octave on the piano—form the chromatic scale. The tones of the chromatic scale (unlike those of the major or minor scale) are all the same distance apart, one ...
List of musical scales and modes Name Image Sound Degrees Intervals Integer notation # of pitch classes Lower tetrachord Upper tetrachord Use of key signature usual or unusual 15 equal temperament: 15-tet scale on C. Play ⓘ — — — 15 — — — 16 equal temperament: 16-tet scale on C. Play ⓘ — — — 16 — — — 17 equal ...
Sonate for Alto Saxophone and Piano (1993)—Jindřich Feld; Vocalise for Alto Saxophone and Piano (1994)—Bertold Hummel; Hidden Reflections (1996)—Lior Navok; Three Piece Suite for alto saxophone and piano (1998)—Richard Rodney Bennett; Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano (2000)—David DeBoor Canfield
In the quarter-tone scale, also called 24-tone equal temperament (24-TET), the quarter tone is 50 cents, or a frequency ratio of 24 √ 2 or approximately 1.0293, and divides the octave into 24 equal steps (equal temperament). In this scale the quarter tone is the smallest step.
The terms sounding range, written range, designated range, duration range and dynamic range have specific meanings.. The sounding range [3] refers to the pitches produced by an instrument, while the written range [3] refers to the compass (span) of notes written in the sheet music, where the part is sometimes transposed for convenience.