Sauver (Fr.)

To resolve (a di onance), nin Zp. indy, yin. gk md For the orchestra there are also made a ba in C, a contraba in C;, and a low ba in F; and all members of the family are also constructed a semitone lower in pitch than shown above. Saxophone, An instr. of a ppe inv. about 1840 Uy Adee Sax of Dinantsur-Meuse, ‘eam, It is a wind-instr. of metal, having a conical tube with recurved bell, and clarinet-mouthPisce with single reed, the key-mechanism and fingering also being similar to those of the clarinet. It is an ‘* omnitonic” (chromatic) instr., with a mellow and penetrating tone of veiled quality partaking of that of the clarinet, cor anglais, and violoncello, but very sonorous, and of remarkable homogeneity in all registers and sizes; 6 principal sizes are made, at intervals of a fourth and fifth apart, each size SBALZO. 17k ae kee eee 1842 1 ian. It e entially an improved key bugle or ophicleide, having from 3 to 5 valves instead of keys. Saxhorns are constructed in 7 different sizes, forming a complete series alike in timbre and method of playing, and named according to their fundamental tone or their relative pitch and compa , They are not fitted for the use of crooks, Though extensively employed in military music, only two, the Euphonium and Contraba -tuba, have achieved a place in the orchestra—The nomenclature of the saxhorn family being sadly confused, a list with the various appellations is annexed: 1. Sopranino saxh. (petit saxh., petit bugle & pe ony) oy eal a Soprano’ saxh. (contralto saxo, bugle tdnor, Fit i gel horn in 2). 3. Alto ath, CAlthorn in 27) & Tenor saxh, (baryton en ai, Tenorhorm in B, Ba hdgeihorn). 5 Base saxh, (ubara e on sf, Ba tuba, ‘Euphonium, Baryton, Tenorbaas in 3). 6. Low ba saxh. (Pombardon gn mip). 7. Contraba azh. (bombardon en sf grave, Kontraba tuba), Saxhorns 1 to 4 are cla ed as bugles d pistons; while § to 7 are cla ed as tubas or bombardons.—Their extreme compa is: Bin In By. 7. in By. Pee ee ee 5 Fd in turn comprising 2 individuals a whole tone apart: x Sopane a me phone fp £ nd Bh a Contra ECS By & Tenor “8 ols By. gpm EN BS The notation for this transposing instr. is alike with inter me for all diate chromatsizes; ic tones, the com: Chiefly used ps, v in military Saxotrom’ba, A valve instr. of the trumpet family, inv, by Ad. Sax, inter. mediate in quality of tone and scale of tube between the Horn and Saxhorn; constructed, like the latter, in 7 sizes. Sba¥zo (It.) A skip or leap... Shalza « to, dashingly, impetuously.