“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.
Don’t be a baboon on the bassoon. Browse our sheet music, tuition books and scores, and let us help you “hit on a tune” today!
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.: 565092
Die Kunst des Fagottblasens
for: Bassoon
Noten Fagott
Item no.: 739685
Quartet
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 750731
aus der Fagott-Schule
for: Bassoon
Sheet music
Item no.: 4452
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1136388
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 336504
Notes Etrangeres
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 343629
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 554302
Orgelkammermusik 5
for: Bassoon, organ
Item no.: 487792
KVb 292 (196c)
for: Bassoon, strings
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1556239
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1556206
Konzertmarsch für Fagottquintett
for: 4 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1215690
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1215666
KV 315
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1215658
Basson et Piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1072357
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 489324
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 447074
for: Bassoon, strings
Partitur, Stimmensatz
Item no.: 638672
KV 292
for: Bassoon, cello [2 bassoons]
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1758
from "G. 1888"
for: Cello [bassoon], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 4512
Basson et Piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1073496
for: Bassoon
Instrumental Solo
Item no.: 1666044
F
for: Bassoon, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1642089
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1580412
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1579002
for: 2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1596994
aus op. 40
for: Melody instrument (bass clef), basso continuo
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 781261
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1580831
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1580591
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1630240
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1630154
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1629952
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1663428
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1663666
for: 5 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1567112
for: 2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1567470
From Coppelia
for: Bassoon, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1300975
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1598828
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1598501
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1600002
for: Bassoon
Sheet music
Item no.: 1607192
Bb
for: Bassoon, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1589137
Print-on-demand
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 188066
for: Bassoon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 552462
Tarantella Napoletana
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1287690
from Violin Sonata N° 4 in C minor BWV 1017
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1289710
Oh! Quand je dors
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1290836
for: 2 bassoons, piano
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 601008