Compare and Contrast Essay: “Alto Saxophones and Tenor Saxophones"
Alto saxophones and tenor saxophones are two of the most common and versatile members of the saxophone family. From the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, on the stage of a Men at Work concert in New York’s Madison Square Gardens, or even on a street corner in the Big Easy, you will find one or both of these saxophones. While the two saxophones are commonplace in the worlds of rock n’ roll, classical, and jazz music, alto saxophones and tenor saxophones are quite different in their size and shapes, the tone and key, and the musical parts they play. To begin with, alto and tenor saxophones are played in quite different tones and keys. Alto saxophones are pitched in E flat. This means that the alto is six pitches down from a normal concert pitch. Tenor saxophones are pitched in B flat which sounds an octave and a major second lower than a concert pitch. To sum that up, the alto saxophone is a higher pitch than the tenor saxophone. Because the tones of the saxophones are different that also means that the scales you play on the two saxophones are different. If one played a D scale on an alto saxophone, one could play
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For example, the alto saxophone is a great deal smaller in overall size than the tenor saxophone. The necks of the two instruments differ in that the alto saxophone has a straight neck; whereas, the neck of the tenor saxophone has a distinguishable bend. The mouthpieces of the saxophones are also different sizes; the alto saxophone has a smaller mouthpiece than the tenor saxophone. Since the mouthpiece of the tenor is so much larger, that means that the reed of the instrument is also larger in length and width than the reed of an alto saxophone. Because the tenor saxophone is so much larger than the alto saxophone, the selling price is also much
The clarinet is a woodwind instrament consisting of a cylindrical wood, metal, or ebonite pipe with a bell-shaped opening at one end and a mouthpiece at the other end, to which a thin reed is attached. The clarinet has five different sections, the mouthpiece, the barrel, the upper section, the lower section, and the bell. The length of the entire instrument is 60 cm long. The mouthpiece section consists of a slotted cylinder, to which a reed is attached by a metal clamp called a ligature. The mouthpiece plugs into the next section which is a barrel. The barrel is simply a connecting cylinder to which the mouthpiece and the upper section plugs into. The upper section is a cylindrical pipe consisting of 4 holes and 9 keys placed in different locations along the pipe. On the back of the pipe there is a hole and a key that is used by the thumb. The lower section plugs into the upper section and is also connected via a special bridge key. This piece consists of 3 holes and 8 keys. On the inward facing side of the pipe, there is a protruding piece of metal called a thumb rest, which supports the entire clarinet. The bell plugs into the lower section. It consists of a cylinder that flares out into a bell shape and ends the clarinet.
This is a small biography about the popular Dutch professional alto sax player Candy Dulfer. She is more of a modern professional alto sax player that started playing around 1974, and plays smooth jazz and funk. Unlike T.K. Blue she had more of a natural talent and didn’t go to a music school. She has really strong pipes and plays the alto saxophone loud and proud. When listening to her music I thought she would be another great example of pushing the limits, the alto saxophone has no limits. You would never think of the alto saxophone playing any other types of music other than jazz, but it all depends on the passion and determination. Especially when you see a woman that’s playing the musical instrument. Most people think that the alto saxophone is a man’s instrument; when I was in a school band there were only me and on other female alto saxophone player out of the eight of us. There are a handful of good professional alto sax players that are women. She could give younger women inspiration and beliefs that they can do anything. She proves that there is more than just a pretty fac...
The saxophones are timid on average and have a talent for complaining. They can usually be found huddled together in the band hall talking about how awful something,or another
The differences and similarities between the traditional version of the Epic Beowulf and the modern version, Beowulf and Grendel, makes passages for characters such as Grendel to be changed due to the time frame in between the film and the epic.There are several characters that stood out from the film, as they are portrayed in the epic as something completely different than in the movie. Grendel is one of the few that stood out the most.
Some people think that if they could only change one aspect of their lives, it would be perfect. They do not realize that anything that is changed could come with unintended consequences. “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs and “The Third Wish” by Joan Aiken both illustrate this theme. They demonstrate this by granting the main character three wishes, but with each wish that is granted, brings undesirable consequences. The main idea of this essay is to compare and contrast “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Third Wish.” Although the “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Third Wish” are both fantasies and have similar themes, they have different main characters, wishes, and resolutions.
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I have often read that the saxophone is a “versatile” instrument. Maybe this is because its inventor; Adolph Sax, intended the role of the saxophone to be somewhere in between a loud woodwind instrument and a versatile brass instrument. Indeed even the professor of saxophone at the Paris conservatoire, Claude Delangle, states “What instrument could be better suited than the saxophone, with its variety of forms and cultures, to adapt itself to the expressive devises of the shakuhachi?”1 Delangle is most likely referring to the jazz and dance band cultures that the saxophone has adapted to, not to mention its dominance in gospel, pop, funk and American church music. This seems to suggest that Sax's instrument is somewhat chameleonic, adapting just as easily to changing musical styles as it does to imitating the Japanese shakuhachi2 or the Greek Duduk3. Indeed the saxophone has become an icon of popular culture, making appearances in television shows and cartoons, and being used in experiments of industrial production (Ornette Coleman used a Grafton saxophone which was almost entirely made of white acrylic).
When a saxophone is mentioned, it instinctively creates an image of a soothing sound commonly associated with jazz music. It is a unique instrument that has played a vital role in transforming the sound of music. The saxophone is also known as the sax to music lovers. Those who play the saxophone are called saxophonists. It belongs to the woodwind family among the numerous musical instruments. It is played using a single reed mouthpiece that is commonly confused with the one used in playing the clarinet. They are regularly made using brass.
Freshman Year vs Senior Year When I think about change it really scares me, mostly because I hate change. But when I think about how much I have changed from my freshman year to my senior year, I’m satisfied with the changes that have happened because they have made me who I am today. From freshman me to my senior me, I have become more involved, more independent, and more friendly, but my standards still have yet to change.
There are many different kinds of saxophones, but only a few are commonly used. The most common ones include the alto, baritone, tenor and soprano saxophones. Most tyros start on the alto saxophone. After learning the rudiments of the alto, players then can transition to a different kind of saxophone. One motif of the saxophone is that all of the finger positions are the same no matter which type of saxophone one is playing.
In both T.S Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and Jay McInerney’s “It’s Six A.M. Do You Know Where You Are?,” the narrators are dissatisfied with their love life. They are lonely and in need of companionship with a woman. Their loneliness makes both characters search for women in places that are out of their comfort zone. Prufrock in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” attempts to go to a high-society party while the narrator in “It’s Six A.M. Do You Know Where You Are?” visits a nightclub. Looking for love in all the wrong places, the main characters are in a state of self-delusion when searching for their ideal woman because they fail to look for a type of woman they need rather than what they desire.
The tenor sax was the original saxophone invented by Adolphe Sax and this was the first type of saxophone to enter the jazz world. It was used to replace string instruments because it was admired for its smooth sound and qualities. Entering into the 1920’s, the saxophone’s popularity skyrocketed and became one of the most admired instruments in the jazz world of this age. Around the same time that the tenor sax was gaining popularity and becoming a widely known instrument in the music world, other types of saxophones were being invented and produced such as the alto saxophone, and the soprano
The Ozymandias that is described and talked about in the poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley is actually based on an actual Egyptian pharaoh, Ramses the second. Ramses the second translates to Ozymandias in Greek. Ozymandias ruled Egypt during the thirteenth century B.C. Ozymandias, or Ramses the second, was known for his ambition and for the giant statues of himself that he ordered to be made. It is one of these statues that is the centerpiece of this poem.
The saxophone family was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1840. Adolphe Sax wanted to create a group or series of instruments that would be the most powerful and vocal of the woodwinds, and the most adaptive of the brass instruments, that would fill the vacant middle ground between the two sections. He patented the saxophone on June 28, 1846, in two groups of seven instruments each. The series pitched in Bb and Eb, designed for military bands, have proved extremely popular and most saxophones encountered today are from this series (Bloomingdale School of Music). Over the course from birth through the 19th century to the 20th century, the saxophone will have generated much uproar as an instrument for orchestral substitution
The Web. The Web. 16 Feb. 2014. http://www.heri.ucla.edu/pdfs/sax_final%20report_sing_1f02b4.pdf>. Sokol, Marlene.