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

• Main Author: Braasch, Jonas (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Current Research in Systematic Musicology, 6
• Subjects: Acoustical engineering.; Music.; Acoustics.; Engineering Acoustics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Acoustics of the Saxophone
• Extended Techniques for the Saxophone.-Deep Listening
• Grafted Instruments
• The Sonic Circle
• Sound Radiation, Recording, and Environment
• Epilogue
• References
• Index
• About the Author.