Tónlistarskólinn á Akureyri - Saxophone

Concert! Sax quartet

2010-10-24T10:21:00.000-07:00

Sax quartet concert's program:

Practice
Tuesday, October 26th at 3pm í stofu Dynheimum á 2. hæð.

Concert

Wednesday, October 27th

a- Rafnagil at 8.10am (10-15 minutes)

b- Giljaskóla at 10am

Starting with Sax quartets!

2010-10-12T07:00:00.000-07:00

Dear students,

We are starting with two saxophone quartets:

Saxófón kvartett "A" miðvikudagur 18:00-19:00 í stofu Dynheimum á 2 hæðþ. Stjórnandi er Alberto Carmona http://akureyrisax.blogspot.com

Saxófón kvartett "B" miðvikudagur 17:00-18:00 í stofu Dynheimum á 2 hæðþ. Stjórnandi er Alberto Carmona

I want you to know about this quartet "The World saxophone quartet".

They are very special and so so good.

They are so cool, isn't?

I will post more videos next week,

Alberto

2010-2011

2010-09-19T08:06:00.000-07:00

Dear students,

We are starting a new school year.

It is nice to have new saxophones:

New Baritone

New Tenor

We will start two saxophone quartets soon at School, it will be something new and really beautiful.

Just for fun, look this student duet saxophone and piano!

Let's check this page more offen ;)

Alberto

New year, new fun book!

2009-09-24T09:45:00.000-07:00

Hello sax players!

You can download the audio-cd for the Aebersold book number 12 - Duke Ellington...

Includes:

Satin Doll
Perdido
Take The "A" Train
Solitude
Mood Indigo
I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
Sophisticated Lady
Prelude To A Kiss
In A Sentimental Mood

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE CD

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE BOOK IN Eb/Bb

Jamey Aebersold Duke Ellington Play-Along Book includes some of the most famous jazz standards in the world from rich, lush ballads to crisp and light swing tunes that every gigging musician should know.

The Jamey Aebersold Play-Along series is an inspiring way to practice. Backing tracks are a great gift for any musician wanting to learn standards, or who plays just for fun. Duke Ellington has probably single-handedly influenced more music and musicians than any other jazz legend. Intermediate.

Alberto Carmona
Tónlistarskólinn a Akureyri

Saxophone!

2009-05-25T09:56:00.000-07:00

Hello Sax Players,

Please check this link, you will enjoy!

Sindri Geir
Paquito D'Rivera
Improvisación

Saxophone students talking about music, saxophone and art!

Have a nice summer!

Alberto

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Saxophone students

2009-04-05T10:00:00.000-07:00

Hello there,

Check our last video, you are there!
Saxophone students at TONAK, Tónlistarskólinn á Akureyri

Download or wacth the video here:
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=XF79VSAR

Good!

Little funny Orchestra
TONAK Tónlistarskólinn á Akureyri

Alberto Carmona
alcarmonita@gmail.com

Our future!

2009-03-08T13:16:00.000-07:00

Hello there,

Please take a look of this amazing and funny band: Grunnsveit (Tónlistarskólinn á Akureyri)

What do you think?

It's look like they are having a lot of fun during our rehearsal!

You can also check this "Sonatina" from René Guillou. Sindri and Helena (alto sax and piano)

Alberto

PS. more very soon!

5. Saxophone relax exercises

2009-01-30T02:30:00.001-08:00

Hello,

Do you feel any tension before/after playing saxophone?

Now, you can download exercise to practise before or after playing. Please, let me know if you have some questions about it.

Click HERE to download the exercise

"Wolli special gift"

Pequeña Czarda - Pedro Iturralde

Click HERE to download the track for alto saxophone and piano

"Sindri special gift"

Play along without melody of Paquito D'Rivera's song. Now, you can play your number with a jazz trio.

Click HERE to download the play-along track

VALS VENEZOLANO

Sindri is playing this number. This is the original track for clarinet and string quartet. Really beautiful staff!

Click HERE to download the music of Paquito D'Rivera (Vals Venezolano)

Please, let me know if you have questions!

Best regards,

Alberto Carmona

Sonatina, Guillou - Alto saxophone and Piano

2008-12-17T12:52:00.000-08:00

Hello,

You can see "Sonatine", piece of the french composer Rene Guillou for alto saxophone and piano

Alto Saxophone: Sindri Geir Óskarsson

Piano: Helena Guðlaug Bjarnadóttir

Please, we want to know your opinion. Can you leave a comment?

Have a nice holidays!

Alberto Porro Carmona

Akureyri, 17 December, 2008

3. Saxophone Players

2008-11-04T05:56:00.001-08:00

CONCERT

THURSDAY 20-NOVEMBER (8.00PM)
TONAK
SAXOPHONE CONCERT: SINDRI AND VALUR

Hello there,

I will try to show you all about saxophone players. You only need to check this web one or twice per week and download the cd's.

I would also like to read comments... please write a comment!!! Tell me what you think about every saxophone player that you listen, it's very important to know your opinion.

Easy!

ART PEPPER

Modern Art

Please, click HERE

PAQUITO D'RIVERA

Habaneras

Please, click HERE

DEXTER GORDON

Our man in Paris

Please, click HERE

MIGUEL ZENON

Looking

Please, click HERE

PAQUITO D'RIVERA

Live in Blue Note

Please, click HERE

CLASSIC SAXOPHONE

JEAN MARIE LONDEIX

Full cd, please click HERE

MUSIC FOR SAXOPHONE AND ORCHESTRA

Full cd, please click HERE

CLAUDE DELANGLE

Full cd, plase click HERE

As I said, let me know with a commet what you think about these music. It is very important to know about your opinion.

Regards,

Alberto Carmona

2. Metronome + CD's + more!

2008-10-03T03:28:00.000-07:00

You must leave comments!

Alberto

Metronome

You can download a complete metronome.

Please, check this link HERE

CD Classic Saxophone

Wow! You should listen this CD of Classical Saxophone

Please, click on this link HERE

Sax Quartet

The saxophone quartet is usually made up of one B♭ soprano, one E♭ alto, one B♭ tenor and one E♭ baritone. On occasion, the soprano is replaced with a second alto sax; a few professional saxophone quartets have featured non-standard instrumentation, such as James Fei's Alto Quartet (four altos) and Hamiet Bluiett's Bluiett Baritone Nation (four baritones).

There is a repertoire of classical compositions and arrangements for the soprano-alto-tenor-baritone instrumentation dating back to the nineteenth century, particularly by French composers who knew Adolphe Sax. The Raschèr, Amherst, Aurelia, Amstel and Rova Saxophone Quartets are among the best known groups. Historically, the quartets led by Marcel Mule and Daniel Deffayet, saxophone professors at the Conservatoire de Paris, were started in 1928 and 1953, respectively, and were highly regarded.

The Mule quartet is often considered to be the prototype for all future quartets due the level of virtuosity demonstrated by its members and its central role in the development of the quartet repertoire. However organised quartets did exist before Mule's ensemble, the prime example being the quartet headed by Eduard Lefebre (1834-1911), former soloist with the Sousa band, in the United States c1904-1911. Other ensembles most likely existed at this time as part of the saxophone sections of the many touring "business" bands that existed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. More recently, the World Saxophone Quartet has become known as the preeminent jazz saxophone quartet. The Rova Saxophone Quartet, based in San Francisco, is noted for its work in the fields of contemporary classical music and improvised music.

Please, click on this link HERE if you want to download sax quaret music

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1. About Saxophone (History)

2008-09-30T17:22:00.000-07:00

SAXOPHONE

The saxophone (commonly referred to simply as sax) is a conical-bored transposing musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass band are played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by Adolphe Sax in 1841, and patented in 1846 in two groups of seven instruments each. Each series consisted of instruments of various sizes in alternating transposition. The series pitched in B♭ and E♭, designed for military bands, has proved extremely popular and most saxophones encountered today are from this series. A few saxophones remain from the less popular orchestralseries pitched in C and F.

While proving very popular in its intended niche of military band music, the saxophone is most commonly associated with popular music, big band music, blues, and particularly jazz. There is also a substantial repertoire of concert music in the classical idiom for the members of the saxophone family. Saxophone players are called saxophonists.

History

The saxophone was developed in the 1840s by Adolphe Sax, a Belgian-born instrument-maker, flute player, and clarinetist working in Paris. While still working at his father's instrument shop in Brussels, Sax began developing an instrument which had the projection of a brass instrument with the mobility of a woodwind. Another priority was to create an instrument which, while similar to the clarinet, would overblow at the octave, unlike the clarinet, which rises in pitch by a twelfth when overblown; an instrument which overblew at the octave would have identical fingering for both registers.

Prior to his work on the saxophone, Sax made several improvements to the bass clarinet by improving its keywork and acoustics and extending its lower range. Sax was also a maker of the then-popular ophicleide, a large conical brass instrument in the bass register with keys similar to a woodwind instrument. His experience with these two instruments allowed him to develop the skills and technologies needed to make the first saxophones. Adolph Sax created an instrument with a single reed mouthpiece like a clarinet, conical brass body like an ophicleide, and the acoustic properties of the flute.

Having constructed saxophones in several sizes in the early 1840s, Sax applied for, and received, a 15-year patent for the instrument on June 28, 1846. The patent encompassed 14 versions of the fundamental design, split into two categories of seven instruments each and ranging from sopranino to contrabass. In the group Sax envisaged for orchestral work, the instruments transposed at either F or C, while the "military band" group included instruments alternating between E♭ and B♭. The orchestral soprano saxophone was the only instrument to sound at concert pitch. All the instruments were given an initial written range from the B below the treble staff to the F three ledger lines above it, giving each saxophone a range of two and a half octaves.

Sax's patent expired in 1866; thereafter numerous saxophonists and instrument manufacturers implemented their own improvements to the design and keywork. The first substantial modification was by a French manufacturer who extended the bell slightly and added an extra key to extend the range downwards by one semitone to B♭. It is suspected that Sax himself may have attempted this modification. This extension was adopted into almost all modern designs.

Sax's original keywork was very simplistic and made playing some legato passages and wide intervals extremely difficult to finger, so numerous developers added extra keys and alternate fingerings to make chromatic playing less difficult. While the early saxophone had two separate octave vents to assist in the playing of the upper registers just as modern instruments do, players of Sax's original design had to operate these via two separate octave keys operated by the left thumb. A substantial advancement in saxophone keywork was the development of a method by which both tone holes are operated by a single octave key by the left thumb which is now universal on all modern saxophones. One of the most radical, however temporary, revisions of saxophone keywork was made in the 1950s by M. Houvenaghel of Paris, who completely redeveloped the mechanics of the system to allow a number of notes (C♯, B, A, G, F and E♭) to be flattened by a semitone simply by lowering the right middle finger. This enables a chromatic scale to be played over two octaves simply by playing the diatonic scale combined with alternately raising and lowering this one digit. However, this keywork never gained much popularity, and is no longer in use.