“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: Double bassoon, piano
Item no.: 246641
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 656107
A practical and easily accesible edition of suitable test pieces for Orchestral auditions for Bassoon.
for: Bassoon
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 382999
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 205842
for: Instrument
Music lesson book (spiral binding)
Item no.: 605605
Effective and systematic Exercises
Major Edition
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 772331
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 257310
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 159544
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score (anthology), online media
Item no.: 618508
for: Bassoon, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1553280
for bassoon and string quintet or string orchestra
for: Bassoon, string quintet [string orchestra]
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 749339
(Winds)
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 246709
24 Miniature Pieces Vol. 2
for: 2 bassoons
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 1023110
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 266826
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 614900
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 178117
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 481609
for four Bassoons
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 666504
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 577000
School for bassoon in 6 volumes
Vol. 6: Double Bassoon
for: Double bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 284083
for: Bassoon
Study book (without notes)
Item no.: 768689
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 266853
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Music score
Item no.: 406416
for: Instrument
Music lesson book
Item no.: 403587
for: Instrument [voice]
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 681777
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 118984
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Music score
Item no.: 765317
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 310958
for: Bassoon, piano
Score
Item no.: 184952
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 138631
for: Instrument
Music lesson book
Item no.: 101359
for: Instrument
Music lesson book
Item no.: 107309
for: Wind instrument
Music lesson book
Item no.: 560308
for: Instrument [voice]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 493356
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 377120
120 cards for any late elementary music student
for: Instrument [voice]
Cards (teaching material)
Item no.: 474560
for: Instrument [voice]
Cards (teaching material)
Item no.: 668968
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book, 2 playback CDs
Item no.: 551911
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 267139
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Music score, 2 Playback-CDs
Item no.: 177388
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 368935
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1198022
for: Instrument
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 350043
for: Wind instrument
Music lesson book
Item no.: 491673
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 173560
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 832297
for: Instrument
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 266056
for: Instrument
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 201865