“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
Sheet music
Item no.: 1576709
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1575413
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1574306
for: 1–2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1572335
for: 5 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1570715
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1605005
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1604141
for: 5 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1600145
Musik für Hochzeiten, Begräbnisse und kirchliche Feiern.
for: Bassoon, organ
Score, 2 Single parts
Item no.: 1633463
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1611836
im Original für vier Violinen
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 663776
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 358347
Trois Escapades pour hautbois d'amour, basson et piano
for: Oboe d'amore, bassoon, piano
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 205837
Southern Music
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 924686
for: Bassethorn [bass clarinet/bassoon]
Music score
Item no.: 1658186
Manuskript, ohne Partitur
for: 4 bassoons, double bassoon
Set of parts (4)
Item no.: 681857
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 216939
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 183909
No. 34-66
for: Bassoon [small bassoon]
Music score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 462439
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 880240
Silver
for: Trombone [euphonium/tuba/bassoon] (bass clef)
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 445978
Jazz Improvisation Series
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 327546
für drei Fagotte
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 383009
From The Baroque To The 20th Century
for: 4 trombones [bassoons/ euphoniums/ tubas/ flexible ensemble (4 voices)]
Ensemble score (anthology)
Item no.: 208899
for Bass Clef Instruments Transcribed Exactly from His Recordings
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 1690552
Klassik
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 321452
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Book
Item no.: 909283
Klassik
for: Bassoon, piano
Score
Item no.: 100899
for Bassoon and Strings (Pocket Score)
for: Bassoon, strings
Study score
Item no.: 1556093
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 120933
für Fagott, Streicher und Cembalo
Urtext
for: Bassoon, strings, harpsichord
Set of parts
Item no.: 683038
für Fagott
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 625041
Nr.7-12
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 160229
for: Bassethorn [bass clarinet/bassoon]
Music score
Item no.: 445083
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 754350
Edition Schott
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 758370
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 792043
Erstdruck
for: 2 bassons, orchestra
Piano reduction, 2 solo parts
Item no.: 1209920
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1108368
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568233
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568317
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568914
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1567098
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1598235
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1601012
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597178
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1593399
Musik für alle Gelegenheiten: Hochzeit, Geburtstag, Jubiläum, Begräbnis und andere besondere Feiern.
for: Bassoon, organ
Score, 2 Single parts
Item no.: 1633491