“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 score, solo part
Item no.: 875054
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 884994
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 1542870
Bassoon
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 812983
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 963581
über "Der Karneval von Venedig"
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 618937
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 615462
Nr. 4-6
for: Bassoon [cello], basso continuo
Score, solo part
Item no.: 614788
Ausgabe für Fagott und Klavier
Fanna VIII, No.17 - PV 45
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 642875
Fanna VIII,no.5 - PV 282
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, Solo part(s)
Item no.: 641197
für Fagott, Streicher und continuo F:VIII,16
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 682051
für Fagott, Streicher und Cembalo F:VIII,16
Ausgabe für Fagott und Klavier
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 682049
Notturno sentimentale op. 2 für Fagott und Klavier
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 674701
für Fagott, Streicher und Basso continuo
Fanna VIII,no. 18
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 674220
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 697667
A Musical Adventure for Beginner Bassoonists
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 768692
for basoon ensemble
for: 4 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 696396
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 604720
Klavierbegleitung
for: Small bassoon, piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 551323
CD für Quintfagott
for: Small bassoon
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 551185
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1556161
Fanna VIII,no.34 - PV 50
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1556120
Vier kleine Vortragsstücke
for: Small bassoon (F), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1555901
op. 14
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 889398
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1562663
op. 99
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1561992
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1561985
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1561984
Nr. 1-3
for: 2 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1561032
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1561021
for: 2 bassoons
Item no.: 1356538
for: Clarinet [oboe/ soprano saxophone/ small bassoon (F)], piano
Piano score, Solo parts
Item no.: 1317260
Sieben Stücke
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 1200424
Bassoon teaching material
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1165681
Erstdruck
for: 2 bassons, orchestra
Piano reduction, 2 solo parts
Item no.: 1209920
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1563654
First edition
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1563587
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1563176
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1023013
Klassik
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 900217
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 907925
op. 51
for: Bassoon, harp
Item no.: 1629318
For Solo Bassoon
for: Bassoon
Solostimme
Item no.: 1619866
Musica Rara
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 341165
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 338628
Musica Rara
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 327192
für drei Fagotte
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 312344
for: Bassoon [cello], basso continuo
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 382737