“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.
50 melodische Ohrwürmer für zwei Fagottini in F (Fagotte)
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 682429
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 994048
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 886986
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 884446
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 880138
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 879223
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 885684
Klassik
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 974237
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 883456
for: Bassoon [cello], basso continuo
Item no.: 299051
Trompette, Cor, Trombone et Tuba
for: Wind instrument
Book
Item no.: 1562148
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 1557181
for: Flute [clarinet/bassoon], piano
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 186031
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 665271
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 971076
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 936490
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Book
Item no.: 948530
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 939917
Übungsduette zum Üben von Phrasierungen
for: 2 cellos [bassoons/ trombones]
Ensemble score (C, bass clef)
Item no.: 492644
32 Flick Key and other Thumb Studies
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1008948
for: 4 bassoons
Score
Item no.: 1009013
for: 6 bassoons, double bassoon
Score
Item no.: 1060144
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1665086
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1098486
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1099249
for: Bassoon
CD-ROM
Item no.: 1204376
for: Bassoon
Buch + CD
Item no.: 803861
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 880820
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 839904
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 925095
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 892475
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 925409
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1135668
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 456347
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 100843
for: 4 melody instruments (bass clef)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 683947
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 988093
for: 5 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1662971
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1662812
for: 5 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1662372
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 476799
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 267011
Solo for Flute / Clarinet / Soprano Sax / Alto Sax / Tenor Sax / Trumpet / Horn / Trombone / Euphonium / Violin / Viola / Violoncello
for: Melody instrument (C, B, Es, Viola, C Basschlüssel), sinfonisches Blasorchester
Score, Parts
Item no.: 675422
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1690659
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1663708
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1663333
for: 2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1596942
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1596569