“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
Score
Item no.: 266725
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 620517
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 766809
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 1208030
Harmonielehre
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 834231
3 Vortragsstücke
for: Double bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 723089
after the uncompleted Sonata for viola and piano arranged and edited by Rainer Schottstädt
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 732160
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 182015
24 Miniature Pieces Vol. 1
for: 2 bassoons
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 796240
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 687065
for: Bassoon, piano
Ensemble score, solo part
Item no.: 636825
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 633686
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 618485
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 212185
Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra
Urtext
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 456189
for: Bassoon, basso continuo
Piano reduction, Solo part(s)
Item no.: 169072
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 109240
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 113739
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 552950
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 934631
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 665262
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1281557
A Guide to Effective Practice
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 780143
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 166482
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 389474
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 392907
for: Small bassoon, piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 476318
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 664122
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 641107
for bassoon, strings and harpsichord
for: Bassoon, strings, harpsichord
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 627042
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 620892
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 256572
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 367012
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 142256
for: Bassoon, piano
Score
Item no.: 113751
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 392653
for bassoon and piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 404368
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 112903
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1215414
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 460456
for: Bassoon, double bassoon [2 bassoons]
Ensemble score
Item no.: 686716
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 266934
for: 2 bassoons [cellos]
Ensemble score
Item no.: 198376
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 266751
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 672852
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 664451
for: 3 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 817094
for: 2 bass instruments
Ensemble score
Item no.: 207560