“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
Piano reduction
Item no.: 302623
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Item no.: 130225
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 306189
for: Wind instrument
Music score
Item no.: 734607
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 310102
for: Bassoon
Buch + CD
Item no.: 374487
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 833011
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 311838
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1098046
for: Horn, bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 656542
for: Bassoon, piano
Score
Item no.: 1139187
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 896272
for: Bassoon, piano
Score
Item no.: 263765
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 260040
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 248233
A Mixed-Level Program for Groups & Individual Instruction
for: Wind instrument (C low, treble clef)
Single part (educational)
Item no.: 1659851
for: Bassoon
Single part(n)
Item no.: 361607
pour basson et quintette ou orchestre à cordes
for: Bassoon, string quintet [string orchestra]
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 784448
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1355068
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1355065
pour basson et quintette ou orchestre à cordes
for: Bassoon, string quintet [string orchestra]
Single part Viola
Item no.: 784446
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Single part Horn 1/2 (F)
Item no.: 374671
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Oboe 1, 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 374670
for: Bassoon
Single part(n)
Item no.: 232282
pour basson et quintette ou orchestre à cordes
for: Bassoon, string quintet [string orchestra]
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 784445
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1025067
for: Bassoon
Single part Bassoon
Item no.: 629992
for: Bassoon, strings, harpsichord
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 643433
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1025070
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1355067
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1355066
for: Bassoon, strings, harpsichord
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1355544
Volume 2: Twelve Classic Young-Band Marches Plus Innovative March Style Warm-up Exercises
for: Bassoon
Single part
Item no.: 865894
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1025069
pour basson et quintette ou orchestre à cordes
for: Bassoon, string quintet [string orchestra]
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 784444
for: Bassoon, piano
Single part(n)
Item no.: 362113
10 distinctive solos
for: Trombone [baritone horn/bassoon], piano
Single part Trombone/Baritone horn/Euphonium/Bassoon
Item no.: 1063771
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1025068
pour basson et quintette ou orchestre à cordes
for: Bassoon, string quintet [string orchestra]
Single part Cello
Item no.: 784447
for: Cello [bassoon], piano
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1852
Ein musikalischer Adventkalender mit 24 Lieder zum Mitspielen
Play-Along Ausgabe für Posaune, Bariton und Fagott inkl. Playback-CD
for: Bass instrument (C)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 136921
mit Variationen über 15 Advents-, Weihnachts- und Winterlieder
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1656983
Europe for Beginners
for: 1–2 melodic instruments (C, bass clef), piano [keyboard, guitar]; voice ad lib.
Piano score, ensemble score
Item no.: 681050
Swingende Weihnachtslieder für Unterricht, Vorspiele und Feiern
für zwei bis drei Bassinstrumente im Kanon oder Ensemble
for: 2–3 bass instruments (C)
Ensemble score (anthology)
Item no.: 669181
for: Bassoon
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1351455
First Band Nr. 6
21 Advents- & Weihnachtslieder in Quartettheften
for: 1–4 trombones [bassoons/euphoniums/tubas]; organ [piano] ad lib.
Ensemble score
Item no.: 460759
for: Trombone [baritone horn/euphonium/bassoon]
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 378285
for: Bassoon, piano
Book, CD
Item no.: 975250
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