“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: Clarinet, bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 341501
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 177283
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1129036
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1584959
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 739599
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1383125
for: Clarinet, bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 210212
for: Bassoon
Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 880404
for: Trombone [baritone horn/bassoon]
Music score
Item no.: 279836
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 1562670
for: Horn, bassoon [2 bassoons]
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 1555933
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1555926
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1555916
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1555907
for bassoon, strings and basso continuo (set of parts)
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1555784
for: 2 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 472006
for: Small bassoon (F), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 408096
(Winds)
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 312345
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 290730
(Winds)
for: 3 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 275661
for: 4 bassoons
Ensemble score, solo part
Item no.: 241636
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 167259
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 135402
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 1645651
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 664068
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 661918
for bassoon
Vol. 2 (no. 26–50)
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 661713
for: 4 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 661201
for: Bassoon, strings
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 661198
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 642214
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, Solo part(s)
Item no.: 641602
for: 2 bassoons
Bläserpartitur, Stimmensatz
Item no.: 638873
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 636434
for bassoon
Vol. 1 (no. 1-25)
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 634652
for: 2 bassoons [cellos]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 580714
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 565613
for: 3 bassoons
Set of parts
Item no.: 108465
for: 2 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 817714
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 767385
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 767381
for bassoon ensemble
for: 3 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 695960
for: Bassoon
Single edition
Item no.: 683137
Ten well-known Pieces for two Bassoons
for: 2 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 681997
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 675611
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 673534
for: Bassoon, strings, harpsichord
Score
Item no.: 667357
for: 3 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 664655
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 664113
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