Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Hyper-Specializing in Saxophone Using Acoustical Insight and Deep Listening Skills

Hyper-Specializing in Saxophone Using Acoustical Insight and Deep Listening Skills

Braasch, Jonas

Hardcover

Series: Current Research in Systematic Musicology, Book 6

Technology & EngineeringGeneral MusicPhysics

ISBN10: 3030150453
ISBN13: 9783030150457
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: May 8 2019
Pages: 205
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book presents a novel method of grafting musical wind instruments by exchanging an instrument's standard mouthpiece with different tone generators. Using the concrete example of the soprano saxophone, it describes how, with six other tone generators, including brass, double reed, and free reed mechanisms, the saxophone can be extended to nearly every wind instrument category in the von Hornbostel and Sachs classification system. The book demonstrates how it is possible to play these instrument variations with high proficiency, and describes the method of hyper-specialization, including acoustical insights, conservatory training methods and the underlying philosophy. The latter is based on the cultural traditions of the different wind instrument prototypes and the Deep Listening philosophy of cultivating internal diversity, and approach that leads to a new level of wind instrument virtuosity that offers great timbral variety combined with the flexibility of a regular acoustic wind instrument.

Also in

Technology & Engineering

View All