“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
Sheet music
Item no.: 1311608
for: 1–2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1575602
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1575331
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1575652
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1600595
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299544
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1570729
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1567331
for: 1–2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1574575
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1294339
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568317
for: 5 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568275
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568233
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568093
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1300090
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1300713
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1293973
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1280821
Klassik
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1282099
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1282782
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1282679
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1285438
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1287633
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1287406
for: Bassoon, organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297348
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1283565
for: Melody instrument (C/B-flat/E-flat), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 589457
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1255525
for: 8 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1252291
for: 8 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1252253
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1233221
2 Fagotte & Klavier
for: 2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 597335
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1641154
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1221860
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1221740
for: 5 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1614391
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1614377
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1663608
Fagott & Klavier
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 589744
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1220259
Fagott & Klavier
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 593230
Fagott & Klavier (Organ)
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 594896
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1233978
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 593108
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1219879
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 615462
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 884994
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 875054
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