“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: 2 bassoons
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 1203730
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1120953
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 354381
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 392637
for: Bassoon, piano
Study score
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for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 764070
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score
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for: Bassoon
Item no.: 166462
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 166503
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 404348
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 266841
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 154659
for: Cello [bassoon], piano
Piano score, solo part, audio file
Item no.: 1528
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 255490
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 255307
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 116563
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 312606
for: Bassoon, basso continuo
Piano reduction, 2 solo parts
Item no.: 1550470
for: 5 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1662888
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: 5 bassoons
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1574190
for: 1–2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1574056
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1306074
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1285526
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1285387
for: 2 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1285890
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1285809
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1285752
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1282575
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1282519
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1282482
for: 2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1282328
for: Bassoon, organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 1284170
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1285085
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1284713
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1284669
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1283385
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1283253
for: 2 bassoons, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1283942
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1272782