Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations, music examples and tables viii
4. Preface xv
5. Acknowledgements xix
6. Abbreviations and conventions xxi
7. Introduction: Saxophone essentials 1
8. Chapter 1. The life and times of Adolphe Sax 10
9. Chapter 2. The saxophone family 38
10. Chapter 3. The saxophone in the nineteenth century 92
11. Chapter 4. Early twentieth-century light and popular music 133
12. Chapter 5. The saxophone in jazz 183
13. Chapter 6. The classical saxophone 228
14. Chapter 7. Modernism and postmodernism 264
15. Chapter 8. The saxophone as symbol and icon 306
16. Appendix. Adolphe Sax’s 1846 saxophone patent 343
17. Notes 349
18. Bibliography 373
19. Index 381