“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
Score
Item no.: 1137804
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 818339
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 970107
for: Bassoon, piano
Instrumental Solo & Accompaniment
Item no.: 1561478
Ten Big band Arrangements of Duke Ellington Classics
Hal Leonard Big Band Play Along 3
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 477795
for: 2 bassoons
Item no.: 306183
for: Clarinet, bassoon, orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 675219
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 859321
for: Bassoon
Bassoon solo (single part)
Item no.: 660915
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 481787
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1545651
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1031416
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 1618314
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 420759
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 1208078
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 964347
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 281638
for: Bassoon [cello], piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1690367
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 1116697
for: 4 bassoons
Buch
Item no.: 1584547
Klassik
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Book
Item no.: 1195317
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1174061
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1161267
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1140912
Southern Music
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 928111
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1138981
Klassik
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1110238
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1167209
basson et piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1071384
basson et piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1071433
Harmonielehre
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Music score
Item no.: 1139631
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1137795
Klassik
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Buch
Item no.: 1020580
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 1171426
for: 2 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 146357
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 149861
basson et piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1071268
for: Bassoon [cello], piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 122690
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 310696
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Item no.: 272980
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1354228
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 384697
Sudien und Übungen
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1140862
Klassik
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1119501
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Item no.: 191049
Solo-Stimme im Bass- und Violinschlüssel
for: Euphonium [Bassoon]
Music score
Item no.: 1652078
Noten zu den Alben HALBE TREPPE & IFNI
Melodie u. Text mit Gitarrenakkorden
for: Melody instrument (bass clef)
Songbook (melody, lyrics, chords)
Item no.: 1215855
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 188624