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Saxophone Test

This document discusses extended techniques for the saxophone, including altissimo, multiphonics, slap tongue, multiple articulations like double and triple tonguing, air stream disturbances like flutter tongue and growl, air sounds, non-mouthpiece techniques, quarter-tones, key clicks, and circular breathing. It also lists reference books on saxophone techniques and contemporary works featuring extended techniques by composers like Berio, Stockhausen, Tanada, Lauba, Takemitsu, Scelsi, Jolas, Hurel, Rosse. Contemporary saxophone performers utilizing these techniques in performances are also mentioned.

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Saxophone Test

This document discusses extended techniques for the saxophone, including altissimo, multiphonics, slap tongue, multiple articulations like double and triple tonguing, air stream disturbances like flutter tongue and growl, air sounds, non-mouthpiece techniques, quarter-tones, key clicks, and circular breathing. It also lists reference books on saxophone techniques and contemporary works featuring extended techniques by composers like Berio, Stockhausen, Tanada, Lauba, Takemitsu, Scelsi, Jolas, Hurel, Rosse. Contemporary saxophone performers utilizing these techniques in performances are also mentioned.

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Extended Techniques for Saxophone

Dr. Jeffrey Heisler (Kent State University)


Techniques:

Altissimo
(no longer extended technique for professional saxophonists

Multiphonics

Slap tongue
(open vs. closed)

Multiple Articulations
(double and triple tonguing)

Air stream disturbances
(flutter tongue, growl, singing while playing

Air sounds
(non-pitched blowing)

Non-mouthpiece techniques
(trumpet tones, whisper tones, tongue ram)

Quarter-tones

Key clicks

Circular Breathing


Reference Books:

Jean-Marie Londeix, Hello Mr. Sax (Leduc)

(technical instructions for all contemporary techniques)

Daniel Kientzy, Les Sons Multiples aux Saxophones (Salabert)

Robert Luckey, Saxophone Altissimo: High Note Development for the
ContemporaryPlayer (Olympia Music Publishing)-

Sigurd M. Rascher, Top Tones for the Saxophone (Carl Fischer)-

Don Sinta, Voicing (Sintafest)

Trent Kynaston, Circular Breathing for the Wind Performer (Warner Bros)


Truman Allison, Double
Tonguing(http://www.idrs.org/publications/DR/DR11.3/DR11.3.Allison.Doubl
e.html)


Standard Contemporary Works for Saxophone Contemporary Saxophone
Performers

Luciano Berio - Sequenza VIIb (soprano) and IXb (alto) Daniel Kientzy

Karlheinz Stockhausen - In Friendship Claude Delangle

Fumanori Tanada - Mysterious Morning III (soprano) Jean Michel Goury

Christian Lauba - Jungle, Balafon, Steady Study on a
Boogie (alto), and Hard (tenor) John Sampen Vincent David

Toru Takemitsu - Distance (soprano) Marcus Weiss
Giocinto Scelsi - Tre Pezzi Richard Ducros

Betsy Jolas - Fourth Episode (tenor) Marie Bernadette Charrier

Phillipe Hurel - Opcit (tenor) Serge Bertocchi

Francois Rosse - Le Frene Egare (alto) Joel Versavaud

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