“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, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1671665
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 1200424
for: Instrument
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 485781
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1563654
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score
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for: Bassoon
CD
Item no.: 444886
for: Bassoon, strings, harpsichord
Score
Item no.: 223180
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 166461
for: Instrument
Item no.: 1012548
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 173270
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 1542870
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 926680
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 873910
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 390603
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 266707
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 267258
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 267389
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 267327
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 1354397
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 550730
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 267333
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 411939
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 811443
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 802521
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 584909
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 120702
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 266658
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 355682
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 129630
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 780427
for: 3 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1703596
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1383256
for: Small bassoon
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 551185
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 618937
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 812983
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 338628
for: Bassoon [cello], basso continuo
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 382737
for: Bassoon, organ
Score, 2 Single parts
Item no.: 1633613
for: Bassoon, organ
Score, 2 Single parts
Item no.: 1633491
for: 2 cellos [bassoons]
Ensemble score
Item no.: 140986
for: Bassoon, basso continuo
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 225828
for: Instrument
Book
Item no.: 429388
for 4 Bassoons (score + parts)
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1703417
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 140521
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 369107
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 341165
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 327192
for: 2 bassoons
Item no.: 183359
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