Ensemble Textures for Saxophone (and More)
How the textural concepts of "lines" and "choirs" can help you write better for saxophones—and act as foundations for orchestral writing
Cheat Sheet: Sax Ranges and Transposition
Saxophone Fingering Charts
Navigating the "Break"
Soprano Sax: Ranges & Registers
Alto Sax: Ranges & Registers
Tenor Sax: Ranges & Registers
Bari Sax: Ranges & Registers
Trills and Tremolos
Articulation and Vibrato Colors
Extended Techniques: Drew Hosler's Guide to Writing for the Tenor Saxophone
Saxophone Multiphonics Reference
Essential Saxophone Repertoire
Quiz
Defining Lines and Choirs
Lines and Choirs in Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's "The Bamboula"
Lines and Choirs in William Grant Still's Symphony no. 1
Lines and Choirs in William Grant Still, Symphony no. 1
Ultimate Texture Cheat Sheet
Workshop: Writing for Saxophone
Workshop: Lines, Choirs, and Textures
Ultimate Texture Cheat Sheet
Project: Saxophone Etude or Prelude
LIVE: Analyzing Karalyn Schubring's "Extrovert" (3/13/25)
Analysis and Recomposition Cheat Sheet
SCORE: "Extrovert" by Karalyn Schubring
RECORDING: "Extrovert" by Karalyn Schubring
STUDY GUIDE: Karalyn Schubring's "Extrovert"
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