Date of Last Revision
2023-05-02 17:03:37
Major
Music - Woodwinds Performance
Degree Name
Bachelor of Music
Date of Expected Graduation
Fall 2015
Abstract
This project is an exploration of the relatively short history of the classical saxophone genre. It will focus mainly on the styles created by Marcel Mule, the second professor of saxophone at the Paris Conservatory, and Larry Teal, the first full-time professor of saxophone in America. Mule and Teal’s contrasting ideas of playing and teaching created distinct French and American schools of classical saxophone playing. This project explores the similarities and differences between these two schools of thought, and places them each in historical and cultural contexts. In addition, it traces the subsequent lineage of prominent saxophone performers and pedagogues, and looks for evidence that the French and American schools can still be detected in today’s prominent saxophonists.
Research Sponsor
Todd Gaffke
First Reader
Brooks Toliver
Second Reader
Ann Usher
Recommended Citation
Miracle, Sarah E., "An Exploration of the French and American Schools of Classical Saxophone" (2015). Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects. 206.
https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/honors_research_projects/206