“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.
(2016)
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1349797
23 Vortragstücke für Fagott oder Fagottino allein
Tonraum: F-f
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1549165
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 834206
for: Bass instrument, piano
Item no.: 210473
Fagott+Bgl.
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 185103
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 458856
Sudien und Übungen
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 607088
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 145284
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1215670
di Bellini Sulla Norma
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1215048
Konzertwerk
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 969161
for: Bassoon, strings
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1556227
for: Bassoon, harp, strings
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1215671
Aus '4 Mélodies op. 13/2'
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1215662
Vioolsleutel In C
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 468377
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1653686
12 Monodies Pour Instruments A Vent Opus 213
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 333864
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 991861
Fagott+Bgl.
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 244043
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1559822
Timeless Cornish Melodies Cooked Up For Hungry Brass Players
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 991930
4 petites pièces arr. pour 3 Bassons
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 660812
d'Apres La Pratique Des Compositeurs
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 834025
für drei Fagotte
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 677384
Harmonielehre
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 833775
for: 2 cellos [viole da gamba/bassoons]
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 617821
Fagott+Bgl.
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 153343
for: Bassoon, harp, strings
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1215665
Flöte (Trompete) solo, Fagott solo, Streicher 3.3.2.2.1
for: Flute [trumpet] solo, bassoon solo, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 638594
aus der Oper "Carmen"
for: Bassoon [cello], piano
Score, part
Item no.: 637172
50 melodische Ohrwürmer für zwei Fagottini in G (Fagotte)
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 682425
Fagottduette 1 (Set (6)) (Set (6))
for: 2 bassoons
Item no.: 483107
for: Double bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 695216
for: Bassoon
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 340859
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 328272
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 371841
Klassik
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 468491
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 270851
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 994727
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 872957
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 945032
Polka für ein tiefes Soloinstrument und Blasorchester
for: Melody instrument (C/B-flat/F/E-flat/C low), concert band
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 1589050
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 994587
for: Bassoon
CD
Item no.: 602056
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 932142
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1098083
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 147615