“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.
in five books
Book 2: Mixed measures
for: Instrument
Music lesson book
Item no.: 301231
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 641220
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 968234
for: Instrument [voice]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 681371
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 689925
for: Instrument
Music lesson book
Item no.: 465083
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 973214
for: Trombone [baritone horn/euphonium/bassoon]
Music score (anthology), Playback-CD
Item no.: 191112
for: Instrument
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 685922
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 482080
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 473868
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 225011
Beginning Band Method
for: Winds class [bassoon]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1692302
Intermediate Band Method
for: Winds class [bassoon]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1692322
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 197274
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1351710
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1193591
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1149569
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score, online media
Item no.: 1355940
for: Bassoon, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1562206
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1023035
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 1317636
for: Bassoon
Piano reduction
Item no.: 838733
for: Instrument [voice]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 681362
for: Trombone [baritone horn/euphonium/bassoon]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 622103
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 177361
for bassoon and piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1613170
for: Wind instrument
Music lesson book
Item no.: 588767
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 298258
Polyrythms – Rythmes simultaneous
for: Instrument
Music lesson book
Item no.: 205063
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 981073
for: Small bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1008905
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 463634
for bassoon
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1541784
for: Bassoon, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1612462
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 329190
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 681574
for: Melody instrument (bass clef)
Music lesson book, 3 CDs
Item no.: 375585
for: Instrument
Music lesson book
Item no.: 226300
Rhythmic mixtures
for: Instrument
Music lesson book
Item no.: 205062
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 490784
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 456700
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1677499
sull’opera Lucrezia Borgia
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1670644
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 641972
for: 4 bassoons, double bassoon, xylophone
Score, Parts
Item no.: 681862
Jazz
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 1139782
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 974319