“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
Music score
Item no.: 166465
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 594053
Fagott & Klavier (Organ)
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 594989
Fagott & Klavier (Organ)
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 594932
für Fagott und Klavier (Orgel)
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 593588
for: 2 bass instruments
Ensemble score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 215350
for bassoon and piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 590554
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1313301
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1309638
Hausaufgabenheft für 32 Wochen, Notenzeilen, Kleines Musiklexikon
for: Instrument
Homework booklet
Item no.: 802497
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1671401
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 776713
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1215659
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 471893
Alte Musik (Leuckartiana)
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 346588
Audition Excerpts from the Concert and Operatic Repertoire [2 CDs: Excerpts]
for: Bassoon, double bassoon
2 CDs (without sheet music)
Item no.: 180518
(May 2020 / Mai 2020)
Fagott-Bibliothek
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1665086
17 mittelschwere Arrangements mit Musik aus Irland, Schottland und der Bretagne
World Music
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 689604
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 181576
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1278967
Urtextausgabe
for: 2 cellos [bassoons]
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 1479628
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1678030
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 600691
Percussion optional
for: 2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 600593
for: Melody instrument (C/B-flat/E-flat/F), orchestra
Score, Piano score, Solo parts
Item no.: 1308111
for Advanced Pupils
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 359989
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1550461
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 1557180
for: Bassoon, harp
Score, part
Item no.: 1556054
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1678339
Erstdruck
for: 2 bassoons
Score
Item no.: 1651454
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1655560
LKM Music
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1651537
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1671058
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 1659479
for Bassoon and Orchestra
arranged for Bassoon and Piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1681304
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1542795
ars instrumentalis 001
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 108725
School for bassoon in 6 volumes
Vol. 5: Compositions for bassoon and piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 284082
für Fagott, Streicher und Cembalo
PV 433/F:VIII,27
for: Bassoon, strings, harpsichord
Set of parts
Item no.: 1657196
Sonata in Mi minore
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 198377
F.Viii-19 - Tomo 240
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 262910
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 647287
ars instrumentalis 76
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 108530
Erstausgabe
Veröffentlichung des Franz Danzi Archivs 3
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1654275
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299415
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1298825
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 601036