Practical Tutor for the Saxophone (Alto Saxophone)

Edición de / Edited by: Fitz-Gerald, John

First published in the 1930's and still going strong! Otto Langey's classic tutors include helpful diagrams and illustrations, fingering charts and many studies and examples from standard repertoire, as well as exercises in ornamentation and passage work for the more advanced player.

CONTENIDO:

Rudiments of Music
Duration of Notes
Relative value of Notes
Bars, Rests and Dots
Triplets and Groups
Time or Measure
Saxophones
The mode of holding
The position of Mouthpiece
How to produce the tone
On taking breath
The Saxophone Family
A Diagram of the Eb Alto-Saxophone
The Chromatic scale
Tonal exercises
Exercises on fixed intervals
Exercise on mixed intervals
Scales and Exercises in every Key
Abbreviations
The three degrees of Staccato
A table of Shakes or Trills
Forty-eight Melodic Studies
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A Selection of popular Music
Four celebrated Solos