“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.: 267574
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch + CD
Item no.: 859615
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1583095
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1670322
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 1542948
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 267161
for: Bassoon
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 152490
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 100844
for: Trombone [baritone horn/euphonium/bassoon]
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 363974
Fagott (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 393524
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 169028
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 377600
for: 1–2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1108064
Edition Schott
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 793319
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 725436
2 Short Suites for Bassoon & Piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1354882
for: Bassoon, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1642327
for: Bassoon, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1642307
for: Bassoon, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1642184
for: Bassoon, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1612766
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 792056
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 792054
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 792051
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 792042
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 792035
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 792032
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, 2 Single parts
Item no.: 1633462
for: Bassoon, organ
Score, 2 Single parts
Item no.: 1632600
for: Bassoon, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1589518
for: Bassoon
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1562207
for: Bassoon, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1589657
for: Bassoon, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1565343
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 637942
for: Double bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 769758
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 412650
for: 2 cellos [bassoons]
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1695
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 262910
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 375627
Klassik
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1194808
for: 2 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 633720
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1546704
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1128612
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 266916
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1542795
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1127660
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 647287
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 684689
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 859287