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Sort Desciption: phone was not the product of the jazz. or marching band eras. The saxophone .... list of whatever jazz transcriptions. I was. able to locate. ...
Content Inside: April 26, 1976 Number 17 Last year I took advantage of your captivity as a C@ reader to gripe about the paucity of jazz transcrip- tions.1 SinceI am particularlyinterested in the role of saxophone in modern jazz, my protest really concerned the unavailability of saxophone transcrip- tions. In case you have forgotten the gist of my argument, I pointed out that jazz, America’s greatest conuibution to music, is nearly without written docu- mentation. Thanks to the invention of the phonograph, we do have “aural” documentation. However, these record- ings are terribly inconvenient for usc in research. Imagine using recorded ver- sions of journal articles whenever you wanted to do research. The educational value of the written version in music is signflcant. Of course, a written transcription of jazz or classical music cannot completely and faithfully reproduce what you can hear and feel in a sound recording. Never- theless, the written version contributes immensely to a filler understanding of a piece in conjunction with a recdirrg. Contrary to general belief, the saxo- phone was not the product of the jazz or marching band eras. The saxophone was invented by a Belgian, Adolph Sax, the son of a famous clarinet maker. The first written composition for saxophone, F@nze .hcr;, was written by Hector Berlioz, and was later performed in 1844, in Paris. Berlioz himself conduc- ted. Ironically, the written music has been irretrievably lost. The horror of lost musical transcrip- tions is a typical occurrence with jazz compositions. Indeed, many publishers have disorganized piles of original sheet music, recorded or otherwise, rotting in warehouses, It seems as though music publishers are unaware, or indifferent, to the transcription problem. They even seem reluctant to highlight or publicize the older jazz classics, Recently, I was browsing through the ptino music sec- tion of the Pacific Coast Music Shop in San Francisco when 1 came across the “chart ...
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