Under mitt tredje år på Musikhögskolan Ingesund bestämmer jag mig för att åka på utbyte till Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. Det tredje läsåret ska vi skriva ett självständigt arbete om ett valfritt ämne inom musik. Jag valde att studera min inlärning av flageolettspel på barytonsaxofon, då jag hade hittat ett stycke för solo-barytonsaxofon och blåsorkester som gick upp på flageolett-tonerna. Att kunna spela flageoletter på saxofon är en kännedom som många anser som proffsigt. När jag sedan som saxofonlärare har dessa kunskaper om hur det är att lära sig spela flageoletter tror jag att det kommer ge mig en vidare synvinkel på problem som uppkomma. Syftet är att se hur jag designar mitt lärande och uppmärksammar de problem jag stöter på samt hur jag hanterar dessa. Jag har valt att studera detta ur ett designteoretiskt perspektiv med videoobservation samt komplimenterande anteckningar som metod där jag har fem filmer över en sex veckors period. I resultatdelen diskuterar jag hur jag designat mitt lärande samt vilka hinder jag stött på och hur jag hanterat dem. / During my third year at Ingesund School of Music I decided to engage in an exchange student program at the Canary Conservatory Superior of Music in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. The third school year you´re assigned to write an independent self-study on an optional topic within music. I had chosen to study my learning of the altissimo register on the baritone saxophone, because I found a piece for baritone saxophone solo with wind band that has music that goes to the altissimo register. The knowledge of playing in the altissimo register is considered as a professional knowledge. Pursuing my career as a saxophone teacher and including this knowledge about learning of the altissimo register I think I will have a greater view of which problems you can find throughout the process. The purpose of the assignment is to see how I design my learning and pay attention to problems and see how I handle them. I have chosen to study this through a design theory perspective with video observation and complimentary notes as the method of this study which I got five films over a six weeks long period. In the result part I discus how I have designed my learning and which problems I did found and how I handled them.

Park "Pepper" Adams, III (1930-1986) is one of the most influential baritone saxophonists in the history of modern jazz. In addition to his time feel, his timbre, and other conceptual techniques, a great deal of Adams's improvisational style and vocabulary can be illustrated by his use of three motivic devices. These three motivic devices are: (1) his utilization of the sixth degree of the major scale as an important melodic pitch; (2) his use of a paraphrased portion of the melody of the popular song "Cry Me a River;" and (3) his use of the half-whole octatonic scale when the rhythm section sounds a dominant chord. This dissertation traces the way in which Adams applies these three motivic devices through four of his original compositions, "Enchilada Baby," "Bossallegro," "Lovers of Their Time," and "Rue Serpente." All four of these compositions were recorded by Adams on his 1980 album, The Master. In addition to the motivic analysis, a biography of Adams is included. Complete transcriptions by the author of Adams's improvised solos on the four compositions are included in the appendices.