“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.: 290078
for: Double bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 223086
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 857827
for: Cello [bassoon/trombone], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1089
from Tone and Perfomance Studies
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 682660
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 164242
for: Bassoon, piano; bass, drums ad lib.
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 678725
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1006147
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 576060
for: Trombone [bassoon/cello], piano [organ]
Piano score, solo part, audio file
Item no.: 1542
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 254236
for: Bassoon
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 603501
for: Winds class [trombone/baritone horn/euphonium/bassoon (bass clef)]
Music score
Item no.: 1031686
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 678170
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 487473
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 665373
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, Solo part(s)
Item no.: 1532301
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 1351776
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 289517
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 676790
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 101466
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 780886
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 603151
for: Voice [melody instrument], piano
Piano reduction, solo parts
Item no.: 1019432
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 225222
pour 2 Basse-Viole da gamba (2 Vc, 2 Fag) TWV40:118-123
for: 2 bass-viole da gamba [cellos/bassoons]
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 622710
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 694934
for bassoon and string quintet or string orchestra
for: Bassoon, string quintet [string orchestra]
Score
Item no.: 746744
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 389126
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 462332
for: Bassoon, piano
Ensemble score, solo part
Item no.: 375538
for: Bassoon [cello], basso continuo
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 677086
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 602608
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 190936
Jazz-Style Arrangements with a "Variation"
for: Trombone [baritone horn/bassoon]
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 146437
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 393020
for: Bassoon, piano
Score
Item no.: 695716
Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra
Urtext
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 431126
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 184971
for: 2 bassoons [cellos], piano
Piano score, Solo parts
Item no.: 684748
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 166491
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 166469
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 144361
Choralpartita
for: Melodic instrument (C, B-flat, C Bass clef), organ
Score, solo part
Item no.: 461889
für Fagott und Klavier
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 491677
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Book
Item no.: 1215720
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 321478
for: Bassoon
Buch + CD
Item no.: 858386