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

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Authors:
  1. Jonas Braasch

    1. Cognitive and Immersive Systems Laboratory, School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA

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  • Provides a radically different approach to wind instrument design and performance by exchanging mouthpieces with different tone-generator types on the same instrument
  • Describes the concept of hyper-specialization using the soprano saxophone
  • Presents the necessary theoretical background for wind instrument performers and composers to engage in hyper-specialization or to perform and create other extended instrument techniques

Part of the book series: Current Research in Systematic Musicology (CRSM, volume 6)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Jonas Braasch
    Pages 1-4

  3. Acoustics of the Saxophone

    • Jonas Braasch
    Pages 5-37

  4. Extended Techniques for the Saxophone

    • Jonas Braasch
    Pages 39-45

  5. Deep Listening

    • Jonas Braasch
    Pages 47-72

  6. Grafted Instruments

    • Jonas Braasch
    Pages 73-149

  7. The Sonic Circle

    • Jonas Braasch
    Pages 151-175

  8. Sound Radiation, Recording, and Environment

    • Jonas Braasch
    Pages 177-186

  9. Epilogue

    • Jonas Braasch
    Pages 187-188

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 189-205
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Cognitive and Immersive Systems Laboratory, School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA

    Jonas Braasch

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Hyper-specializing in Saxophone Using Acoustical Insight and Deep Listening Skills

  • Authors: Jonas Braasch

  • Series Title: Current Research in Systematic Musicology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15046-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15045-7Published: 08 May 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15046-4Published: 25 April 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2196-6966

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-6974

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 205

  • Number of Illustrations: 159 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Engineering Acoustics, Music, Acoustics

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