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Welcome to the Home of the Manx Saxophone Ensemble

Welcome to the Manx Saxophone Ensemble’s Theory reference pages.

 

The pages you’ll find here cover fairly standard music theory (albeit in our own delivery style), but accented towards the information a member of the band will need in order to play fluently and expressively with others.

 

As a starter-for-ten, we’ve concentrated on ...

 

 

Keys, Scales and Accidentals - with tables of which sharps and flats you’ll find in them, together with some hints on how to remember them.

 

Transposing instruments - and how they play together, again with a table to help you work it all out.

 

Intervals - How they relate to just about everything in musical theory

 

Scales - Major Scales suited to the pieces played in the Manx Saxophone Ensemble

 

 

Future additions will include ....

 

- Musical terms and expressions

 

- Musical Symbols

 

- Aural training

 

- Scales and Modes

 

- Pentatonic and Blues Scales and how to use them in improvisation

 

... And then we’ll start to get serious about theory !

 

Keep watching - more soon,

 

Jem Cotton, Music Director, M.S.E.