Content
1st PART
- Introduction
- Elementary principles of music
- Tablature of the Saxophone
- About the mecanism
- About the saxophone
- Position of the body, hands and fingers
- Mouthpiece and reed
- Position of the mouthpiece in the mouth
- Lips and tuning
- Breathing and musical phrasing
- Raised and diminished tones
- Strong beats
- Preparation studies to obtain tone and mouthpiece quality
- Intervals
- Homogeneity of tone
- Progressive solfeggio
- Major scale
- Minor scale
- Table of scales
- Finger exercises
- Forty exercises
- Syncopation
- Appoggiatura
- Orupetto
- Shaker
- Major and minor scales
- Chromatism Scale of third Chords
- Exercises on perfect chords
- Chords of seventh
- Exercises on the dominant seventh
- Exercises on the diminished seventh
- Six easy pieces
- Forty short studies on articulation
- Six pleasing pieces in graduated form
- Characteristic piece giving practice on the style
2nd PART
- Advice
- About suppleness
- Study about scales
- All tones scales
- Exercises about chords
- Arpeggios
- Fourths, fifths, sixths, sevenths, octaves
- Six melodious studies
- Eighteen finger
- Four easy duets in concert
- Fifteen descriptives studies