“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: 2 bass-viole da gamba [cellos/bassoons]
Score, 2 Single parts
Item no.: 174899
for: 2 trombones [2 bassoons]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 599719
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Music score, Playback-CD
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Heft 1
Musik für Bläser
for: 2 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
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for: Bassoon
Music score
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für drei Fagotte
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 483752
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: 5 bassoons
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
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for: Bassoon
Sheet music
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for: 1–2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: 1–2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
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Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1598501
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: 5 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1599454
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1580831
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1580591
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1580412
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1580116
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1600131
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1600242
Mahler
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 130702
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: 5 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1630996
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1607644
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1605694
Elftes Stück aus dem Zyklus der zwölf Tierkreiszeichen
Neue Hausmusik
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 117673
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 418899
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1574219
Print on demand
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 797056
Fagott & Streicher
for: Bassoon, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596920
Percussion optional
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 600472
Fagott & Klavier
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 593629