Contents

• The Saxophone
• Instruction for the Saxophone
• How to hold the Saxophone
• Position of the Performer
• Position of the Mouthpiece in the Mouth
• The Reed
• Manner of controlling the tone
• etc.
• Breathing
• Method of Study
• General Remarks
• A list of the words used in Modern Music
• How to make your own Reeds
• Rudiments of Music
• Improvements added to the Saxophone
• Preparatory Exercises
• Exercises in Slurring
• Progressive Exercises on time
• etc.
• Exercises on Rests
• Twenty Progressive Exercises
• Eighteen Exercises in Articulation
• Preparatory Exercises on the High Notes
• Eighteen Exercisis in Articulation
• Preparatory Exercises on the High Notes
• Chromatic Scale of the Saxophone
• Major and Minor Scales in all Keys
• Major and Minor Chords in the Keys most used
• Sixty Exercises of Mechanism
• Fifty Exercises from Low Bb to F above the staff
• Twenty-one Exercises on detached Notes in different Keys
• Twenty-seven Exercisis for gaining execution in the different Keys
• Three Exercises on Staccato
• Grace-notes and Embellishments
• The Shake
• Table of Shakes
• The Mordent or Passing Shakes
• Exercises on Shakes
• Fifteen Cadenzas
• Introduction of Adagio
• Beethoven Sonata Pathetic
• Ten Duets for Two Saxophones by F. Mayeur
• Six Duets for Two Saxophones by H. Klose
• Exercises on dotted Eight and Sixteenth Notes
• Exercises with Sixteenth Rests
• Exercise on dotted Sixteenth Note and Thirty-second NOte
• Exercise with Thirty-second Rests
• Exercises on TRiplets
• Forty Exercises on Slurred and Detached Notes
• Seventeen Exercises on Syncopation
• Twenty Operatic Melodies
• Exercises for the new fingering of the improved Bb
• B
• and C# keys
• Progressive Major and Minor Scale and Exercises
• Interval Exercises on the major and minor sclaes
• Studies and the Major and Minor Chords
• Exercise on the Chord of the Dominant Seventh
• Exercise on different Diminished Sevenths
• Exercise on the succession of four Diminished Sevenths
• Ten Studies on Arpeggios in different Major Keys
• Chromatic Exercises
• Eight Fantasias
• Eleven Progressive Studies
• Theme with nine easy variations
• Theme with Variations
• Twenty studies by A. Mayeur
• Fifteen Studies
• Four Solos
• Air with Variations from Donizetti's Elisire D'Amore
• Four Concert Duets by H. Klose
• Adagio Concerto Militaire
• Serenade
• Give me thy Heart
• Ballet Music
• Berceuse
• Hungarian Dance
• Caprice-Gavotte
• Happy be Thy Dreams
• Blue Bells of Scotland
• La Cinquantaine
• Jennie-Polka
• Sextet