“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.
Don’t be a baboon on the bassoon. Browse our sheet music, tuition books and scores, and let us help you “hit on a tune” today!
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.: 1574505
for solo contrabassoon
for: Bassoon
Music score
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für Fagott und Klavier
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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Inspired by Vivaldi
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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S.49, WoO.1
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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Klassik
for: 2 bassoons
Sheet music
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Furiant
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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Klassik
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
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for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
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for: 4 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Parts
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Prüfungsliteratur
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 290078
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: 2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
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Sheet music
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Opus 8, Nr. 11
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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inspired by Antonin Dvorak
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1277857
aus Kantate BWV 151
for: Bassoon, organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 1290498
Fagott & Klavier
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 590026
für vier Fagotte
for: 4 bassoons
4 Performance scores
Item no.: 628488
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Bassoon, piano
Study score
Item no.: 391993
Fagott & Klavier
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: 2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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The Golden Wedding
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Small bassoon
Music lesson book
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Inspired by Beethoven
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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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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from Swan Lake Op. 20
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1285179
Hob. VIIe:1
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1275819
for: 2 bassoons, piano [organ]
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Bassoon
Music score
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1562711
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, Solo part(s)
Item no.: 492853
Marsch
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1280407