“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.
Sudien und Übungen
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1104889
Harmonielehre
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 1140453
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 869323
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1137856
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1167106
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1070637
Preciosa
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 328061
Editions Du Siecle Musical
for: Bassoon [cello], piano
Item no.: 329067
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 370449
for: 4 bassoons
Item no.: 179376
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 170434
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1170359
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 1121002
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1549137
Ein Konzept für das erfolgreiche Unterrichten mit Blasinstrumenten
for: Winds class [bassoon]
Single part (educational), online audio
Item no.: 692633
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1138321
Sudien und Übungen
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1551016
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1327216
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1139249
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 554349
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 114304
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Item no.: 272977
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Item no.: 272974
Fagott+Bgl.
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 209232
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 630509
Selected Pieces for two bassoons
for: 2 bassoons
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 1161251
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1102649
Klassik
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Book
Item no.: 984096
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 873008
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829307
Bassoon and Piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 830048
PSALM 89 FUER STB CHOR UND ORCHESTER
EINZELSTIMME FAGOTT
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 664548
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1067447
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 841767
Bassoon
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1063526
Bassoon
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1065693
Bassoon Repertoire
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1349042
Bassoon
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1063471
Bassoon
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1068687
Frank Morelli, Bassoon
for: Bassoon
CD
Item no.: 1019304
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829116
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1147390
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 949290
for: Bassoon, piano
Score
Item no.: 1140361
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 839070
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 554352