“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.
Fagott & CD Playback
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 600758
Fagott & CD Playback
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 600692
Op. 1, Nr. 3 c-moll
for: Bassoon, organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 1284154
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1285331
Klassik
for: 2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1283598
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1279364
for: 2 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1286530
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1296522
Klassik
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1279974
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1279579
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1275179
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1275089
Klassik
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1282160
Marsch
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1291072
Klassik
for: 2 bassoons, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1286235
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1275044
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1274864
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1285913
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1279504
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1279079
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1275693
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1289978
Opus 116
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1282950
Klassik
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1288055
Op. 45
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1280743
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1286379
Klassik
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1282371
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1279737
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1274999
for: 2 bassoons, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1285589
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1286436
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1287571
from Act III of Lohengrin
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1287484
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1290180
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1273285
Opus 4
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1284069
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1274909
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1282961
C Minor, Op. 113
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1284539
Rhapsodie Orientale
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1287211
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1282627
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1284255
for: 2 bassoons, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1290288
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1286462
for: 2 bassoons, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1286271
in Eb Major, Hob.VIId:4
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1279802
Op. 70
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1279678
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1275223