“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.
Simple and unsymmetrical bars
for: Instrument
Music lesson book
Item no.: 205061
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 460858
A guide to the development of the symphony through the 18th and 19th centuries
for: Instrument [voice]
Book
Item no.: 1192864
for: Bassoon
Buch + Online-Audio
Item no.: 1328504
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 810834
for: Cello [viola/ bassoon], piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 268345
printed and digital edition with audio
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score, online media
Item no.: 1343224
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 266728
for: 4 bassoons
Item no.: 622758
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 365175
Bassoon school for teenagers aged 10 and over
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 586789
for: Instrument [voice]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 681366
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 911415
Klassik
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 964780
Klassik
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 964744
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 475704
for: Instrument [voice]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 175467
also for tenoroon and fagonello (bassoonello)
printed and digital edition with audio
Instrumental ABC
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book, online media
Item no.: 1355939
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 180570
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Book
Item no.: 322915
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 858085
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part (anthology)
Item no.: 180220
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1206922
for Advanced Pupils (Original version)
Universal Fagott Edition
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 113741
for: Instrument [voice]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 681360
Challenging Exercises & Etudes for Modern Improvisation
A Practice Guide for the Contemporary Musician
for: Instrument
Music lesson book (spiral binding)
Item no.: 443578
Bassoon method
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 495811
for: Instrument
Songbook (melody, lyrics, chords)
Item no.: 685945
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 357647
with complete theoretical Explanations
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 172783
10 intervallic studies for solo instruments
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 565662
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 658035
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 284078
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 198382
For moving to a higher level of improvisation and confidence in any musical situation
Jamey Aebersold Jazz
for: Instrument
Music lesson book
Item no.: 457108
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 806500
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 690404
in five books
Vol. 4: Sinple measures (supplement of the 1st booklet)
for: Instrument
Music lesson book
Item no.: 301233
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 689924
for: Bassoon, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1612463
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 489060
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 858315
for: Small bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1008903
A method for beginner
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 556822
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 774913
A fresh approach
Schott Sight-Reading Series
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 621799
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 242785
for: Instrument
Music lesson book
Item no.: 681182