Solos caractéristiques pour saxophone sélectionnés par Nicolas Prost-After publishing the Adolphe Sax Album devoted to early solos from the time of Adolphe Sax this second volume proposes a similar approach and traces the path of the Saxophone from its origin in the 1840s to the beginning of the20th century.In addition to being able to read the scores this work provides an indispensable pedagogical tool for expanding knowledge about Sax's instrument well before it gained popularity through jazz pop etc.Saxophonists professors students musicologists and Saxophone lovers in general will be interested in the various solos rare or even unknown melodies characteristic of typical writing for the instrument and how composers usedit in relation to the musicological historical and esthetic context of the period.