“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
Score
Item no.: 411922
for: Bassoon, piano
Klavierauszug, Solostimme, Digitalartikel (AODP)
Item no.: 1639671
from: Four Bassoon Rags
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 746554
for: Bassoon, piano
Score
Item no.: 100899
for: Trombone [euphonium/tuba/bassoon] (bass clef)
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 445978
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Book
Item no.: 909283
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 141585
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1558173
for: Bassoon, piano
Score
Item no.: 361162
for: Bassoon, piano
Score
Item no.: 852066
for: Bassoon, piano
Score
Item no.: 853284
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 375626
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1108051
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 383009
for: 2 bassoons
Item no.: 153874
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 297083
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1129027
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1129093
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 615731
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 261642
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 586036
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1127595
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 858298
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 154227
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 897669
for: Bassoon, harp
Score, solo part
Item no.: 1563009
for: Bassoon, strings, harpsichord
Set of parts
Item no.: 1556082
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 481784
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 160229
for: Bassoon, basso continuo
Piano reduction, Solo part(s)
Item no.: 136090
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 682897
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1009218
for: Bassoon, strings, harpsichord
Set of parts
Item no.: 683038
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 663776
for: Bassoon
Ensemble score
Item no.: 661202
for: 4 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 660130
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Set of parts (Orchestra)
Item no.: 656055
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 643000
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 638717
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 625041
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1562799
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1562744
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1562709
for: Bassoon, piano
Ensemble score, solo part
Item no.: 587449
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, Solo part(s)
Item no.: 472260
for: Bassoon, piano
Ensemble score, solo part
Item no.: 408124
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1345495
for: 3 bassoons
Score, 3 Single part
Item no.: 816929
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