“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.: 1274999
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 817095
Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra
Urtext
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 431131
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 673134
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 687056
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 878612
for: 4 bassoons
Set of parts
Item no.: 364743
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 1354359
for: Bassoon, guitar
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1672822
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 870458
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 166470
for: Bassoon, strings, harpsichord
Score
Item no.: 262908
for: Bassoon, strings, harpsichord
Score
Item no.: 262443
No. 1-3
for: Bassoon [cello], basso continuo
Score, solo part
Item no.: 611338
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, 2 Single parts
Item no.: 1633650
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 613769
for: Bassoon, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 210163
for: 2 bassons, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo parts
Item no.: 1658553
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 641606
Erstausgabe (Bläser) (Winds)
for: 2 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 275651
for: Wind ensemble (20 instruments), audio tape
Score
Item no.: 271659
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 1108032
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 284964
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 920815
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 224422
for: 2 cellos [bassoons]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 2312
for: Bassoon, cello [2 bassoons]
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1758
for: Cello [bassoon], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 4512
for: Bassoon
Sheet music
Item no.: 4452
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 315133
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 183019
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 255169
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 964134
op. 24
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 617504
für drei Fagotte
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 483752
Was einen guten Instrumentalunterricht ausmacht (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: Instrument
Book
Item no.: 431512
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 255836
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 198375
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1580831
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1135783
for: Bassoon [cello], basso continuo
Piano score, solo part, playback-CD
Item no.: 432942
for: Bassoon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 552462
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 130702
Playable on any four instruments or any number of instruments in ensemble
Trombone/Baritone(B.C.)/Bassoon/Tuba
for: 4 trombones [bassoons/ euphoniums/ tubas/ flexible ensemble (4 voices)]
Ensemble score (anthology)
Item no.: 561862
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 106859
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 775615
for: Instrument
Book (lexicon)
Item no.: 585958
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