“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: 2 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1613861
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1613693
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1613629
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1692662
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1692439
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1636130
for: 5 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1697068
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1694312
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1694190
for: 5 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1694898
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1693651
for: 1–4 bassoons, piano
Music score
Item no.: 370058
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1298889
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1294570
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1294434
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1295108
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1295018
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1294751
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1300239
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299528
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299460
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299376
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1310179
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1310105
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1310104
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1310102
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1310101
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1310098
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1310093
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1309968
for: 8 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1308940
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1307814
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1312094
for: 3 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1312047
for: 3 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1312031
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Piano score, solo part (anthology)
Item no.: 600822
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 596004
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 595267
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 590041
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 589925
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 346711
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 590555
for: 2 bassoons
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 593713
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 593512
for: 2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 600592
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297662
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297217
for: 2 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1284055
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