“There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears, That in billions of years, I shall certainly hit on a tune.” Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, English Astronomer, Physicist, Mathematician & Philosopher.
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The bassoon has a very similar history and development to that of the oboe. It came from the Dulcian, around the time that the Shawm was beginning to be replaced by the oboe. In Italy in the late 17th Century, it was named the Fagotto, in France the Fagottez, and in England the Bassoon.
Played using a double-reed, the bassoon is usually made out of European Maple wood, and has a conical bore which doubles back on itself, making the pitch deeper. It originally had just three or four keys, but during the 18th Century, it began to have six keys. Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto for example, was written for a model with six keys.
At the turn of the 19th Century, bassoons had eight keys, and during the following years, many more keys were added, and two models emerged, the German Heckel Style and the French Buffet Style. These are the two models on which our modern day bassoons are based.
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 224422
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 1354359
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 1354307
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 780741
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 255169
for: Bassoon, concert band
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 1628921
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 149735
Was einen guten Instrumentalunterricht ausmacht (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: Instrument
Book
Item no.: 431512
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 819535
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 1354319
for: Bassoon, strings, harpsichord
Score
Item no.: 262908
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1215793
for: Cello [bassoon], piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 370450
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 315133
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 1108032
TWV 40:118
eingerichtet für zwei Violoncelli
for: 2 cellos [bassoons]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 2312
for: Bassoon, strings, harpsichord
Score
Item no.: 262443
for: Trombone [baritone horn/bassoon]
Music score
Item no.: 279835
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 255836
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 198375
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 266971
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 266917
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 266850
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 267307
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 964134
for: Bassoon, piano
Score
Item no.: 266660
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 687047
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 315583
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 350972
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 864463
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 797056
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 383299
Nr. 1-3
for: Bassoon [cello], basso continuo
Score, solo part
Item no.: 611338
for: Bassoon [cello], basso continuo
Piano score, solo part, playback-CD
Item no.: 432942
Erstausgabe (Bläser) (Winds)
for: 2 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 275651
for: Bassoon, basso continuo
Piano reduction, Solo part(s)
Item no.: 181543
Zweistimmige Übungen für Bläsergruppen
for: 2 melodic instruments (C, Bass clef)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1664561
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 1108061
Erstdruck
for: Horn, bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 627621
for: Bassoon, strings
Score, Parts
Item no.: 638420
1. Satz
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 644437
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 763563
Edition Schott
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 781648
für Fagott
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 1697122
Basson et Piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1072492
Fagott (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 1666811
for: Bassoon, strings
Partitur, Stimmensatz
Item no.: 1667409
für Fagott und Orchester
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1659013
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