“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
Item no.: 877735
for: 3 bassoons, basso continuo
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 628485
for: Bassoon, basso continuo
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 614789
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 614049
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1059423
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1559144
for Bass Clef Instruments
With Playback-CD (Bassschlüssel) (Bass clef)
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 583005
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, Solo part(s)
Item no.: 116564
for Bassoon, Strings, Basso Continuo (Piano reduction)
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction, Solo part(s)
Item no.: 485783
for: 1–3 Trombones [baritone horns (C bass clef), bassoons, tubas]
Music score, online media
Item no.: 691829
for: Cello [bassoon], piano [organ]
Piano score, solo part, audio file
Item no.: 2352
for: 2 cellos [bassoons]
Ensemble score
Item no.: 185667
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 1208049
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 166524
Harmonielehre
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 834061
for: 2 bassoons
Item no.: 162996
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 768998
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1645840
Op. 7/1
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1215660
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 100848
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 485429
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 551331
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 612149
for: Bassoon [horn], piano
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 1562664
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1561991
for: Tenor basson, basson, contrabasson [2 bassoons, contrabassoon]
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 781114
for: 2 bassoons
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 694512
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 659253
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 773591
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, Solo part(s)
Item no.: 603592
for: Bassoon, basso continuo
Piano reduction, Solo part(s)
Item no.: 170432
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, Solo part(s)
Item no.: 492853
for: 2 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 184113
27 Tangos und Milongas für Fagott allein
Tonraum: B-g1, (B-a1)
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1108045
for all instruments
Jazz Instruction
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 654966
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 113753
Edition for Bassoon and piano
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 113750
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 345313
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 245119
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 155035
Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 71
for: Wind instrument(s) from the baroque / classic
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 487351
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 807803
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 860583
for: Bassoon, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1612464
in five books
Vol. 3: Simultaneous Rhythms
for: Instrument
Music lesson book (spiral binding)
Item no.: 301232
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 322907