“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 clarinets, 2 horns, bassoon, orchestra
Piano score, Solo parts
Item no.: 671060
für Fagott (Tenorsaxophon) und Salonorchester
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 554242
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1546711
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 623447
Rennaissance Quartets
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 1555851
Quartets with Contrabassoon
for: 3 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 1555850
for: Oboe, bassoon, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1628872
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 336502
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1008830
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 182658
The Trios
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 1555848
für Fagott solo op. 31
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 434078
for: Bassoon, organ [harpsichord]
Score, part
Item no.: 644419
for: Bassoon, 2 percussions
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1628904
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 166496
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 949913
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 883183
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 887089
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 880741
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 879112
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 994006
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 961869
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 970179
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 227562
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Book
Item no.: 943653
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 166483
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 904299
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 344018
for: Wind instrument
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 216793
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 980566
for: Bassoon, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1558287
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 255058
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 997277
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 1659479
for: Bassoon
Buch + CD
Item no.: 1541514
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1106709
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 839644
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1566612
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 642148
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 924524
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 927097
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 212755
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 927686
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 966323
for: Bass instrument (C)
Music score
Item no.: 462829
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1135769
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 267707