“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: 1–2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1607002
for: 1–2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1604617
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1604479
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1252138
for: 8 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1251653
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1218714
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1221231
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1312290
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1311344
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 565612
für Quintfagott und Klavier
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 626502
op. 8/2
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 608192
Original für Klavier
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 644401
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 994048
for: 4 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 695412
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 886986
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 884446
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 880138
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 879223
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 885684
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 137085
Klassik
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 974237
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 883456
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1250964
for: 8 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1252268
for: Bassoon, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1248312
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1233375
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1233244
for: 1–2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1600287
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1246332
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1253470
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1253449
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1253444
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1253440
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1253422
for: Bassoon, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1248648
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1275969
for: Bassoon [cello], basso continuo
Item no.: 299051
30 Titles
Junior Series
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score (anthology)
Item no.: 770016
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1217331
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1217888
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1217648
Trompette, Cor, Trombone et Tuba
for: Wind instrument
Book
Item no.: 1562148
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 1557181
Fagott & Klavier (Organ)
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 595177
Solo for Flute / Clarinet / Soprano Sax / Alto Sax / Tenor Sax / Trumpet / Horn / Trombone / Euphonium / Violin / Viola / Violoncello
for: Melody instrument (C, B, Es, Viola, C Basschlüssel), sinfonisches Blasorchester
Score, Parts
Item no.: 675422
Fagott & Klavier
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 593664
für Fagott und Klavier
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 633575