Contents -- Illustrations, music examples and tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and conventions -- Introduction: Saxophone essentials -- Chapter 1 The life and times of Adolphe Sax -- Chapter 2 The saxophone family -- Chapter 3 The saxophone in the nineteenth century -- Chapter 4 Early twentieth-century light and popular music -- Chapter 5 The saxophone in jazz -- Chapter 6 The classical saxophone -- Chapter 7 Modernism and postmodernism -- Chapter 8 The saxophone as symbol and icon -- Appendix Adolphe Sax's 1846 saxophone patent -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.