“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.
Geburtstagslied
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1690659
Geburtstagslied
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1690658
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1677959
Original für Flöte in a-moll
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1688031
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1688212
Eine Auswahl von 4 Titeln aus dem musikalischen Märchen
for: Trombone [bassoon], piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1690327
for: Bassoon
Instrumental Solo
Item no.: 1666044
for: Bassoon, guitar
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1672822
Essential Elements German Translations
for: Winds class [bassoon]
Single part (educational), online audio
Item no.: 1684096
Die komplette Methode für den Musikunterricht in Schulen und Blasorchestern
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 1672968
for: Bassoon, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1689587
mit Variationen über 15 Advents-, Weihnachts- und Winterlieder
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1656983
17 Graded Solos for Bassoon and Piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part, online audio (playback) (anthology)
Item no.: 1672461
sull’opera 'Salvator Rosa'
del M° A. Carlo Gomes
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1670636
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1678030
17 bekende kerstliedjes om mee te zingen
for: Voice [melody instrument], piano
Piano score, solo part, online audio (playback)
Item no.: 1668912
sull’opera Lucrezia Borgia
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1670644
from Haydn to Bernstein in the musical context
for: Bassoon
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1655536
Konzert für Fagott und Kammerorchester
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1678141
for Bass Clef Instruments Transcribed Exactly from His Recordings
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 1690552