Saxophone Altissimo

SKU: AP.1-ADV7152

ISBN 9783892211181. UPC: 805095071528. English.

This book is a response to the proliferation of the usage of the altissimo register by composers and performers and is intended to prepare the advanced saxophonist with the ability to meet the demands of the modern repertoire. Etudes in a variety of musical styles, practice concepts, exercises, and a brief history are included to aid in the development of the altissimo register. In addition, this book is meant to demonstrate greater potential for the altissimo range for performers and composers.

Topics: Cosiderations for Developing the Altissimo Register: Three Elements of Tone Production * Voicing * Overtones * Aural Imagery * Exercises to Access the Altissimo Register * Specific Challenges in the Altissimo Register * Altissimo Etudes: Batch * Overtime * Bugle Boy * Saudade * Plain Bob Minor * Broken Blass * Swung * Spanish Tinge * Theremin * Geschwind * Street Feet * Mozartean * Midnight * Pelushka Fanfatre * Eli's Rag * Hungarian Swede * TV * Tarantolati * Perpetual * Paganini.

SKU: HL.48183438

UPC: 888680788483. 9x12 inches.

Maï by Ryo Noda, a Japanese composer, is a unique piece of work for solo saxophone that is strongly influenced by Japanese music. With some sonority supposed to be quite close to those of a koto and of a shakuhachi, this piece is very technical and complex to play.

The story behind this work is about the ghost of a Japanese Samurai. While his wife asks why he let her behind and left to fight in the war, he tries to justify his choices. Most of the work depicts the struggle within the mind of the Samurai, between ending his life and living in the end of his enemies. The screaming altissimo at the end is the climax of his struggle which then followed by a 10 second silence that represents his death. The technical abilities required are: large interval leaps, rapid trills, alternate fingerings to achieve pitch bending, multiphonics, altissimo, portamento and cutting tone.

SKU: M7.AHW-4012

English.

Packed with hundreds of studies in altissimo playing, intervals, syncopation, chord substitution, polychords, superimposed triads, sequences, modulations, cycles, and much more. A thorough workout which will develop your technique and your harmonic and rhythmic resources.

SKU: PR.446411060

UPC: 680160096275. 11x14 inches.

Steven Stucky has described the saxophone quartet as surprisingly comparable to the string quartet as a classic chamber music medium, while in the concerto format providing a worthy counterweight to the string orchestra. At times, the saxophones in Music for Saxophones and Strings “whisper, murmur, sigh, sing, squeal, or even scream” as the composer has written in notes about the work. Commissioned for the Raschèr Quartet, the work falls into two main sections. The composer continues that “the opening slow movement is dark, nocturnal, troubled; the language is densely chromatic. Mysterious, barely audible rustlings become increasingly more alarming; creatures cry in the night; and the movement climaxes in a lyric outpouring of melancholy, even tragic character. The music subsides by way of cadenzas for the baritone and tenor saxophone. The second, fast movement arrives almost unnoticed, since at first it too is made up of disconnected fragments — quirky, skittish, playful. There are irregular rhythmic accents, gliding quarter-tone runs, scurrying saxophone figures (suggesting, perhaps, a distant echo the bebop style), and screaming excursions into the altissimo register. Briefly the melancholy of the slow, nocturnal opening returns, before a quick coda leads to an emphatic conclusion.”.