“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, Playback-CD
Item no.: 340859
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 328272
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 371841
Nr. 1 – 6
for: 2 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 472006
für vier Fagotte
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 675611
für 3 Fagotte und Kontrafagott
Partitur und Stimmen
for: 3 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 664655
Ausgabe für Fagott und klavier
Fanna VIII, No.15
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 664068
für vier Fagotte
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 661918
for bassoon ensemble
for: 3 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 695960
für Fagott
for: Bassoon
Single edition
Item no.: 683137
für 4 Fagotte und Kontrafagott
for: 4 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 661201
Fanna VIII
Urrtext
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 767385
Fanna VIII
Urtext
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 767381
Klassik
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 468491
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 270851
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 994727
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 872957
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1556127
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1555907
Erstausgabe
for: 2 bassoons
Bläserpartitur, Stimmensatz
Item no.: 638873
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 945032
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 167259
Polka für ein tiefes Soloinstrument und Blasorchester
for: Melody instrument (C/B-flat/F/E-flat/C low), concert band
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 1589050
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 994587
for: Bassoon
CD
Item no.: 602056
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 1562670
Favourite Classical Themes arranged for Bassoon and Piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 464011
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 932142
for bassoon
Vol. 2 (no. 26–50)
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 661713
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 577811
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 492034
for: Clarinet, bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 210212
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 384551
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1098083
for: Bassoon, strings, harpsichord
Score
Item no.: 667357
for: Clarinet, bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 341501
24 Miniature Pieces
for: 2 bassoons
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 1697184
Ten well-known Pieces for two Bassoons
for: 2 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 681997
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 147615
for: 2 bassoons
Score
Item no.: 1209930
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 880860
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 966967
for: Bassoon
CD-ROM
Item no.: 1204341
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 926886
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 213222
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 613012
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1703597
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 813751