“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: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Music lesson book
Item no.: 403592
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 475543
6 Preludes and 7 Sonatas for bassoon and b.c.
Dolce suono
for: Bassoon, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1013494
für Fagott und Orgel
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 694368
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 253866
Alte Musik (Leuckartiana)
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 101462
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 267287
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 603152
Selected Pieces for two bassoons
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 133488
for: Instrument
Bookmark
Item no.: 681408
for: 2 bassoons [cellos]
Ensemble score
Item no.: 200269
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 621608
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, Solo part(s)
Item no.: 561484
for: 3–4 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 488669
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 444524
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 763416
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 489303
for bassoon and piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 412131
for: 2 bassoons
Item no.: 392644
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 172052
for: Bassoon, cello [basso continuo]
Piano score, ensemble score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 471024
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 388454
Heft 1
for: Bassoon, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1548901
for: 3 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 1016997
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 169154
for: Bassoon [cello], basso continuo
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 200574
Harmonielehre
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 833625
for: 2 bassoons
Item no.: 145226
for: Bassoon [cello], piano
Item no.: 200378
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 321538
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 262500
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1562690
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 289858
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 664324
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 109112
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 778790
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 607706
for: Instrument
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 693741
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 394286
for: Trombone [baritone horn/bassoon], piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 278847
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 286349
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 285170
Ten authentic jazz standards
Hal Leonard Big Band Play Along 7
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 497705
(Winds)
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 183782
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 621327
for: Bassoon, string quintet [string orchestra]
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 392652
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 552954
Edition Schott
for: 2 bassoons
Music score
Item no.: 723063