“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.: 184971
F VIII,12 / PV 47
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 614048
for: Bassoon, basso continuo
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 471096
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, Solo part(s)
Item no.: 1669332
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1670918
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 142450
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 1108032
Jamey Aebersold Jazz
for: Instrument
Music lesson book
Item no.: 614987
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 245119
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 600691
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Piano score, solo part (anthology)
Item no.: 600822
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1671058
für Fagott
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 393019
Musik für Fagott solo
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 584944
für Fagott
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 273215
Heft 6: Richard Wagner
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1667395
Jedes Tier zeigt dir seinen Rhythmus
Für jeglichen musikalischen Basisunterricht in Musikschule, Grundschule und Kindergarten
for: Instrument [voice]
Music score
Item no.: 778535
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 660804
Syncopation Studies designed to develop Accuracy and Speed in Sight Reading
for all instruments
for: Instrument
Music lesson book
Item no.: 403587
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1664219
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 120559
for: 2 bassoons
Partitur
Item no.: 1654874
Ausgabe für Fagott und Klavier. Erstausgabe
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 418975
for: Bassethorn [bass clarinet/bassoon]
Music score
Item no.: 1658186
easy to play duets
thirty popular melodies
for: 2 cellos [bassoons]
Ensemble score
Item no.: 185667
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 141934
Stimmen
for: 2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 601122
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 594053
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 166491
Comprehensive Band Method
Online Resources Included
for: Winds class [bassoon]
Single part (educational), online media
Item no.: 364455
for: 2 bassoons [cellos]
Ensemble score
Item no.: 200269
für Fagott, Streicher und Cembalo
Urtext
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 621608
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 776713
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 1658795
for: 2 bassoons [cellos]
Parts (2)
Item no.: 136058
für Fagott und Tasteninstrument
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 662364
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 462332
Fagott & Klavier (Organ)
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 594989
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 595052
Fagott & Klavier (Organ)
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 595019
Fagott & Klavier (Organ)
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 594960
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 159394
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1657262
für Fagott und Klavier (Orgel)
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 593588
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 577000
Series For Young Jazz-rock Combos
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Music score
Item no.: 371956
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 394746
für Fagott und Klavier (Organ)
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 594688