“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.
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für Fagott und Basso continuo, Original für Viola da Gamba
for: Bassoon, basso continuo
Score, part
Item no.: 658510
Erstausgabe
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 635994
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 345803
für Fagott und Orchester
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 674566
für Fagott und Streicher
for: Bassoon, strings
Score
Item no.: 672957
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 196806
Solo Bassoon and Piano Reduction
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 228012
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Buch
Item no.: 935527
Fanna VIII, No. 8
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 664054
für Fagott und Orchester
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 664052
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1345614
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1563116
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1562774
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1562685
Almirena's Arie from Rinaldo
for: 3–4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1562630
op. 34,3
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1562605
op. 119 Nr. 4
for: 3 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1560901
Bd. 3 Nr.67-99
for: Bassoon [small bassoon]
Music score
Item no.: 564009
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 290142
Fanna VIII,no.30 - PV 131
Stimmensatz Streicher (3-3-2-3)
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Set of parts (Strings)
Item no.: 642195
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 198923
BWV 160
Cantata
for: Voice (tenor), violin, bassoon, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 228783
für Dag Jensen
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 637025
für Fagott oder Violoncello und Oop. 1 c-Moll
Fassung für Fagott oder Violoncello und Klavierrchester
for: Bassoon [cello], piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 154455
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 1107416
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 267160
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 819374
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 246930
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1162471
for: Bassoon, piano
Score
Item no.: 313629
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 262346
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 819433
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 818839
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 977272
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 817971
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 774294
Edition Schott
for: Bassoon, guitar
Music score
Item no.: 739100
for: Cello [viola da gamba/bassoon], piano
Piano score, Solo parts
Item no.: 112340
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 923613
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 926216
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 924658
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 1645657
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1611174
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1582441
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1148542
for: Instrument
Item no.: 490225
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1107040
for: 2 bassoons
Set of parts
Item no.: 578629