“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, basso continuo
Piano reduction, Solo part(s)
Item no.: 175440
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 663248
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 659084
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 644401
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 642225
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 642081
for: 4 bassoons, double bassoon; harpsichord ad lib.
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 638835
for: 4 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 630528
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 626502
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 620632
for: Double bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 619005
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 608192
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 565612
for: 2 cellos [bassoons]
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 1479628
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 462440
for: 2 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 172622
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1563588
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1678030
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 1557180
for: Bassoon, harp
Score, part
Item no.: 1556054
for: Melody instrument (bass clef)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 631446
for: 3 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 561758
for: Bassoon, piano
Ensemble score, solo part
Item no.: 408098
for: 2 bassoons
Item no.: 279842
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 331105
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 689604
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 565576
for: Double bassoon, piano
Item no.: 283178
for: Bassoon [cello], piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 384694
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 817183
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 620181
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 964010
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1619412
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 898398
for: Double bassoon
Solostimme
Item no.: 1619506
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 564270
for: Instrument
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 560228
Ten Big Band Arrangements of Jazz Tunes
Hal Leonard Big Band Play Along 4
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 491253
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 476006
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 1207993
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 183232
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 267028
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1148290
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 392908
for: 4 bassoons
Taschenpartitur
Item no.: 1611020
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 255819
Audition Excerpts from the Concert and Operatic Repertoire [2 CDs: Excerpts]
for: Bassoon, double bassoon
2 CDs (without sheet music)
Item no.: 180518
Study pieces
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Music score
Item no.: 392911