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Saxophone Resource Guide

Guide to finding scores, books and journals about the saxophone

introduction

This guide is intended to help you use the UNT Music Library to find printed music for saxophone, books about the saxophone, and journals devoted to the saxophone. 

The UNT Libraries use the Library of Congress call number system to classify books and scores in our collections. Call numbers for scores begin with the letter M. Here are important numbers to know for saxophone music. Under each individual number, scores are usually in alphabetical order by composers' last names. Once you know this, you can browse if you want to select some music.

Saxophone alone  M 106-107

Saxophone with piano accompaniment  M 268-269

Saxophone with big band  M 1205-1206

Saxophone with orchestra M 1034

Saxophone with orchestra, reduction for saxophone and piano  M 1035

Saxophone with string orchestra  M 1134

Saxophone with string orchestra, reduction for saxophone and piano  M 1135

Call numbers for books about music begin with the letters ML or MT. ML stands for music literature, MT for music theory and music teaching. Here are some call number ranges for books about the saxophone

ML 975—history and criticism

MT 500, 505—instruction and study

MT 500, 502—methods 

MT 505—studies and exercises

 

Selected examples from our holdings:

Harvey, Paul. Saxophone. London: Kahn and Aderville, 1995. (ML 975 .H37 1995)

Hemke, Frederick. The Early History of the Saxophone. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1975. (ML 975 .H45 E3 1980)

Ingham, Richard, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. (ML975 .C36 1998)

Kochnitzkey, Leon. Sax & His Saxophone, 5th ed. Ham’s Lake: Jeanné, Inc., 2014. (ML424.S27 K6 2014)

Rousseau, Eugene. Saxophone Artistry in Performance and Pedagogy. Ham’s Lake: Jeanné, Inc., 2013. (MT500 .R695 2013)

You can use our redesigned online catalog, called Discover, to search for scores, books, and recordings: 
https://discover.library.unt.edu/

If you would like to search for chamber music that includes saxophone, please go to our music-specific search screen from our previous catalog:
https://iii.library.unt.edu/search~S7/X

On that screen you can click Instrumentation & Voice Search to search for music for specific combinations of instruments.