“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: Instrument
Item no.: 157042
for: 1–4 bassoons, piano
Music score
Item no.: 370058
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 306182
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1562942
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1562833
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1340932
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1328545
for: Bassoon, strings, harpsichord
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 684233
for four bassoons and double bassoon (Score, parts)
for: 4 bassoons, double bassoon; harpsichord ad lib.
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 646813
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, Solo part(s)
Item no.: 489654
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 395331
(Winds)
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 241643
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 156122
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 366371
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, Solo part(s)
Item no.: 173968
for: 2 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 172886
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 142450
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 626987
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 672761
for: Small bassoon (F), piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 671111
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 666040
for: 8 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 665244
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 642208
for: 4 bassoons, double bassoon, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 641796
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 632579
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 627216
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 626598
for: Bassoon, piano
Ensemble score, solo part
Item no.: 223081
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 1543958
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 745130
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 745128
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Buch
Item no.: 916646
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1626476
for: 2 bassoons, piano
Piano score, 2 solo parts
Item no.: 485353
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1209887
A Must-Have Collection of Well-Known Songs, Including Several Bassoon Features!
for: Bassoon
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 697451
for bassoon and piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 166506
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 166455
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 133433
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 1618722
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 388529
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 388821
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 354318
for: Bassoon [cello], piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 114439
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 1354343
38 hübsche Duos für Fagott-/Fagottino-Anfänger
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1549142
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 392649
for: Bassoon, basso continuo
Item no.: 392643