“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.
Don’t be a baboon on the bassoon. Browse our sheet music, tuition books and scores, and let us help you “hit on a tune” today!
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
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 601060
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 601036
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Piano score, solo part (anthology)
Item no.: 600844
for: 2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 600589
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 600406
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1278915
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1278887
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1278883
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1278760
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1281420
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1274864
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1274551
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1274461
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1276491
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1277225
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1277188
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1275894
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1280850
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1278248
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1278204
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1278185
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1272807
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1273210
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1291314
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1279663
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1273684
for: 1–2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1572245
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1573616
for: 5 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1572647
for: Bassoon
Sheet music
Item no.: 1574076
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1573399
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1572949
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1316429
for: 8 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1308911
for: 8 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1308904
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1308435
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1308338
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1307982
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1311267
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1311166
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1309353
for: 8 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1308944
for: 8 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1308939
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 597094
for: Bassoon, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596932
for: Bassoon, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596930
for: Bassoon, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596929
for: 4 bassoons; rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, percussion) ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 655420
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