“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, concert band
Score, conductor's part, orchestral parts
Item no.: 681085
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829392
Bassoon and Piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829376
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 890018
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 363830
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829986
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 829229
for: Melodic instrument (C Bass clef), piano [organ]
Piano score, solo part (bass clef)
Item no.: 1562492
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 938356
Barnhouse Festival Solo Series
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1017582
Konzertwerk
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1347726
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 970052
for: Bassoon, piano
Score
Item no.: 1170240
for: Bassoon, strings
Score
Item no.: 457513
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 866065
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1005558
for: Bassoon [cello], basso continuo
Item no.: 483896
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 554360
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 819479
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 458775
for: Bassoon, small bassoon (G)
Students book
Item no.: 1633314
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Book
Item no.: 1185837
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 306179
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 886175
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 851775
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 993145
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 603939
for: Bassoon
Study score
Item no.: 1112242
BWV 160
Cantata
for: Voice (tenor), violin, bassoon, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 478543
for: Bassoon, strings
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 176467
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 482569
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 216661
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 159911
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 156940
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 161432
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1119250
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 871296
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1070983
basson et piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1071318
Harmonielehre
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 1137559
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1167230
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 997933
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1071588
for: Bass instrument, piano
Item no.: 200357
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1167280
for: 2 bassoons
Item no.: 171371
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 485250
for: Bassoon, strings
Score, Parts
Item no.: 444137
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