Teaching jazz requires an excellent model. It would be difficult to find a better model than Gerry Mulligan. His many compositions and recordings document the evolution of 20th century jazz like no other. With a career that encompasses work with swing bands of the 1940s, his pia…
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Genres exist to organize and homogenize musical works into definable categories. With a knowledge of genre, musicians, audiences, and general listeners develop an understanding of musical concepts based on the similarities and differences between categorized works. This provides…
This dissertation examines and adapts for saxophone Three Fantasias, Op. 95 for unaccompanied flute by Friedrich Kuhlau (1786–1832), a composer of enduring popularity and respect among flutists. Musical repertoire written for saxophone began in the late 1800s, and became more ro…
Viktor Ullmann (1898–1944) was an Austrian-Hungarian composer, conductor, and poet who, unlike many of his contemporaries, had a fascination with the saxophone. He was a fixture among the Second Viennese School, having studied with and worked for Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951). A…
The final product of this project is a high quality, professionally produced, audio recording featuring saxophone music written by Chinese composers.
Anthony Braxton’s solo saxophone works have been praised for their organizational and technical innovations while simultaneously criticized for their rejection of traditional musical convention, and these works have been influential and inspirational to subsequent solo saxophone…
Jorge Peixinho’s Sax-Blue (1982–84), Passage Intérieur (1989), and Fantasia-Impromptu (1990) demonstrate an expressive exploration of saxophone sound through extended techniques. Timbral exploration is an essential element of the composer’s “new and personal sound world.” These …
This dissertation identifies and presents four works for saxophone, each featuring folk elements from a different culture. The introduction to this document outlines the historical development and implications of the term “folk music.” Rather than an art set in stone, folk music…
This document investigates the improvisational style of Johnny Hodges based on improvised solos selected from a broad swath of his recording career. Hodges is widely considered one of the foundational voices of the alto saxophone, and yet there are no comprehensive studies of hi…
William Albright’s Fantasy Etudes for saxophone quartet has become a cornerstone of the modern saxophone quartet repertoire. However, the published score and parts contain a multitude of discrepancies that need to be reconciled to ensure that future performers of the piece will …