Period Sheet Music Cover for Peters' Saxhorn Journal, one of many music folios published for bands during The American Brass Band Movement
Period Sheet Music Cover for Peters' Saxhorn Journal, one of many music folios published for bands during The American Brass Band Movement
Chapter Four: Music Library & Recordings
The Band's Music Library
T
he Nineteenth Century saw a radical advancement in the design of brass musical instruments. After years of bands having to make do with a long line of peculiar and unsatisfying horns, Adolphe Sax, working in Paris during the mid-1840's, created a homogeneous family of keyed brass instruments that were capable of playing the chromatic scale and were not difficult to learn to play. He called these Saxhorns. They became very popular and came in many configurations (bell up, bell forward, circular, bell over-the-shoulder, etc.).
Armed with the new Saxhorn, the already popular town bands of America grew and multiplied into what is today known as, "The American Brass Band Movement".
