“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
Music score
Item no.: 750571
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 255112
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 266659
Eleven Songs Arranged In A Jazz Style With Written-Out Improvisations
for: Trombone [baritone horn/bassoon]
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 561200
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 367743
for: 2 bassoons, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 149433
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 380414
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 393019
for: Small bassoon (G), piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 671113
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 764486
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 442861
for: 2 bassoons, piano
Piano reduction, solo parts
Item no.: 554451
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 1618233
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 178328
for: Instrument [voice]
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 1552208
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 149066
for: Trombone [bassoon/cello], piano [organ]
Piano score, solo part, audio file
Item no.: 2039
Edition Schott
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 792957
for: Bassoon, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1553776
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 388508
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 214017
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1562602
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1215567
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 192353
in E minor and G major
for: Bassoon, basso continuo
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 212592
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 348447
arranged
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 796129
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 796122
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 694365
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 686539
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 476565
Concerto in D
for: 3–4 cellos [viole da gamba/ bassoons]; organ [harpsichord] ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 279280
for: 2 cellos [viole da gamba/bassoons]
Ensemble score
Item no.: 419252
for: Flute [clarinet/bassoon], piano
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 394924
10 pieces from baroque and classical music
for: 2 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1340645
for: Bassoon, string quintet [string orchestra]
Score
Item no.: 281776
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 113746
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 392650
suivies d'un nombre de pièces
for: 2 cellos [viole da gamba/bassoons]
Score (facsimile)
Item no.: 465233
Übungs- und Spielstücke
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 420197
for: Cello [bassoon/trombone], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2595
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 657085
for: 3 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 693443
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 346618
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 173555
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 273224
for: Cello [bassoon], piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 419393