“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, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1244313
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1244202
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243428
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1277011
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1255542
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1255522
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1255510
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1255509
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1255504
for: Bassoon
Sheet music
Item no.: 1383989
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1233446
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1233396
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1233027
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1251801
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1232671
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240304
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240026
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240006
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1273160
Klassik
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1273135
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1279307
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1278934
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1275944
für Fagott, Streicher und Basso continuo
F:VIII,11
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 678170
für Fagott (Violoncello) und Klavier
Joel Hayden Jr. gewidmet
for: Bassoon [cello], piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 380439
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Item no.: 332269
for: Bassoon
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 348907
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 382596
Woodwind Solo
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 318842
Fanna VIII,2
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 1555917
Klassik
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 900306
Klassik
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 835643
Ausgabe für Fagott und Klavier. Erstausgabe
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 418975
L'arte del violoncello
for: 2 cellos [viole da gamba/bassoons]
Ensemble score
Item no.: 418022
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 190797
Schule
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 937692
Volume 2: Nos. 26-50
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 166462
Kalmus Classic Edition
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 935288
for: Tuba [bassoon], piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 247348
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 217922
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 1555782
Klassik
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 267029
Klassik
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 266932
Klassik
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 266841
Klassik
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 267442
John Williams Sign. Woodwind
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 228011
for all Bass Clef Instruments
for: 2 bass instruments
Ensemble score
Item no.: 563270
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 180230