“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, piano
Book
Item no.: 907925
for: 2 cellos [bassoons]
Ensemble score
Item no.: 140986
for: Instrument
Item no.: 1012548
for: Bassoon [cello], basso continuo
Score, solo part
Item no.: 614788
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 768692
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 697667
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 166461
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 649543
for: Bassoon [cello], basso continuo
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 382737
for 4 Bassoons (score + parts)
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1703417
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 1542870
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 355682
for: Instrument
Book
Item no.: 429388
for: Bassoon
Ensemble score
Item no.: 576873
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 329228
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 889398
for: Bassoon
Solostimme
Item no.: 1619866
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 873910
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 136278
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 267258
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 266707
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 266658
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 411939
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1671251
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 550730
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 267389
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 267333
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 267327
for: Wind instrument
2 Playback-CDs (without sheet music)
Item no.: 156056
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 1676766
Konzert für Fagott und Kammerorchester
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1678141
Harmonielehre
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 834266
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1005044
für Fagott
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 669416
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 762880
for: Melody instrument (bass clef)
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1351494
Classic Chorale Preludes
Arranged for Keyboard and Any Solo Instrument
for: Melody instrument (C/B-flat/E-flat/F), organ manuals [harpsichord/piano]
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 692698
Drei Fagotte und Kontrafagott
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 159807
for: Bassethorn [bassoon], chamber orchestra
Piano reduction, solo parts
Item no.: 332164
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 303020
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 303365
for: Bassoon, strings
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1215686
for: Bassoon
Instrumental Solo
Item no.: 1565521
Am
for: Bassoon, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1642116
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 141934
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 489327
Fagott+Bgl.
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 244045
for: 4 bassoons
Set of parts
Item no.: 1009011