How To Use Bassoon In A Sentence
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They are indeed miniatures, as the entire set of eight take about eight minutes to perform by the pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, violins, violas, cellos and one horn.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
A Room with a View
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They give a fine account of the Overture in C minor which has some delightful work for bassoon.
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Candidates in the categories of piano, oboe and bassoon must include a recording of their own playing on either a cassette tape or DAT cassette.
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Judd made no attempt to tidy up the sheer chaos of this music, presenting its many dynamic extremes without apology, never subduing its often seemingly random accompanying noises of bells, woodwind flutterings and bassoon growls.
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The bassoon is the legitimate bass to the oboe and to the wood wind in general.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
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On this recording, there are nine violins, three violas, three cellos, a double bass, one flute, three oboes, one bassoon, three trumpets, a set of timpani, and a harpsichord.
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The instrumental ensemble is comprised of flute, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two French horns, and a double-bass.
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The shawm, baroque oboe, baroque bassoon and dulcian can overblow without the use of a thumbhole.
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Viols and lutes sounded in the background, laughing dulcimers wove in and out between the harp notes, bassoons and oboes crooned to violins and the deep, sweet voice of cellos, and he knew it couldn't happen even as it did.
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It is a charming piece, and performers and concert-planners should note that it is helpfully and economically scored for an orchestra consisting of just two oboes, two bassoons and strings.
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Other unique curiosities are the 3 Sonatas that the composer wrote for each of the main woodwind instruments; oboe, bassoon and clarinet, although those for cor anglais and flute never saw the light of day.
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The concertmaster (whoever it was) and solo bassoonist are simply fantastic.
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I remember an occasion when all the musicians began to breathe at ease on my taking this piece at the true moderate pace: then the humorous sforzato of the basses and bassoons at once produced an intelligible effect; the short crescendi became clear, the delicate pianissimo close was effective, and the gentle gravity of the returning principal movement was properly felt.
On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music,
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Flutes, saxophones, clarinets, trumpets and bassoons share the spotlight and take frequent solos that, like the vocals, often ramble aimlessly.
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It is susceptible of nodes or modes as far apart as hyperphrygian and mixolydian and of texts so divergent as priests haihooping round David's that is Circe's or what am I saying Ceres 'altar and David's tip from the stable to his chief bassoonist about the alrightness of his almightiness.
Ulysses
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Wind trios for such combinations as flute, clarinet, and bassoon have been written by a number of composers, as have brass trios for trumpet, horn, and trombone or other combinations.
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The performers here, being very good baroque musicians indeed, have deployed a variety of continuo combinations: harpsichord or lute with violone, gamba, double bass or bassoon.
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It's a concerto for the combination of instruments (horn, oboe, clarinet and bassoon) that appear solo in the program's other works.
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On this recording, there are nine violins, three violas, three cellos, a double bass, one flute, three oboes, one bassoon, three trumpets, a set of timpani, and a harpsichord.
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Fri 3/23, 12: 10 PM, contrabassoonist Susan Migro. 312-787-2729, ext.
Chicago Reader
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The instruments included three rhythm sections, bongo drums, piano, a full complement of brass, saxophones, flutes, clarinets, guitars and even two bassoons.
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Thin reasoning perhaps, but the bassoon and double bass duet in the "Menuet" has an earthy Balkan jocularity and the whole work is vigorously charming.
Brad Hill: Salonen Brings Hungarian Echoes to the NY Philharmonic
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The tutti strangeness is that of an orchestra without violas and cellos, but in which double basses, contrabassoon and piccolos are prominent.
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For example, can the contrabassoon part be played up an octave?
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French bassoons had a reedy, pungent tone, quite unlike the rounded timbre of German bassoons.
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Gotta love when the contrabassoonist gets the spotlight.
Times Record News Stories
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Another marked difference between the bassoon and the dulcian is that as was common with other Renaissance instruments, it came in a consort or family.
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The Funny Bunny Hug for Bassoon Quartet.
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In one movement we hear recordings of the musicians 'voices as they played their virtuosic solos: here was the French horn player who wished he was a clarinettist; the contra-bassoonist who adores playing "low notes all day long"; the cellist who says of the audience, "the more they listen, the better we play".
Michael Wolters sees into the minds of musicians
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About midnight she was awakened by the music of a band composed of a clarinet, hautboy, flute, cornet a piston, trombone, bassoon, flageolet, and triangle.
Ursula
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No more toilet humor: NSO contrabassoonist trades in 'flatulent' instrument for sweeter contraforte
Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
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Of other sizes, the commonest is the contrabassoon.
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After an hour (comical bassoon solos over close-ups of the old recreant guzzling some horrible fermented potato-mash lobotomy out of a jerrican, wiping her mouth on her sleeve, belching) of fruitless search, our modern-day pirates head out to sea again, and up the eastern coast of the island.
Gravity's Rainbow
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These charming songs exist in two different versions, the first for baritone and string quartet, and the second for tenor and woodwind quartet (oboe, cor anglais, clarinet and bassoon).
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The sarrusophone may fairly be regarded as an oboe or bassoon; but the saxophone is not so closely related to the clarinet.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
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At the coronation of James II., and also at that of George I., two of the king's musicians walked in the procession, clad in scarlet mantles, playing each on a sackbut, and another, drest in a similar manner, playing on a double curtal, or bassoon.
Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850
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Lewis Lipnick, the contrabassoonist of the NSO, plays Schulhoff's piece on the contrabassoon, the instrument he has been playing for more than 40 years:
Audio: The contrabassoon vs. contraforte
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During the rehearsal he suddenly stopped the orchestra and cried out: "F. sharp, F. sharp in the second bassoon is wrong", only to be answered by the first basson player, "Beg pardon, Sir, the second bassoon is absent today.
Good Music Made Popular
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No more toilet humor: NSO contrabassoonist trades in 'flatulent' instrument for sweeter contraforte
Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
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The deft fiddling of a bright new member, Eleanor Bartsch, partnered the fruity bassooning of Cynthia Cameron Fix, with gambist Duncan Pledger and Yount in the continuo roles for two contrapuntal ensemble showpieces by Tarquinio Marula.
Undefined
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It would be misleading to assert that a woodwind trio (oboe, clarinet, bassoon) has a propensity for entertaining music rather than solid serious stuff.
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Adagio for Strings Adapt to 5 Bassoons.
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The NYOI is joined by the Wind Quintet of Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra which includes oboe, clarinet, horn, flute and bassoon.
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Berckmans is still on board, and his oboe, bassoon and English horn remain a major part of the group's mediaeval chamber music sound.
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Flutes, saxophones, clarinets, trumpets and bassoons share the spotlight and take frequent solos that, like the vocals, often ramble aimlessly.
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The result is that we encounter unsuspected shades of gray, with solo flute and bassoon weaving ironic commentaries.
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One of the set of seven dulcians from the Este collection in Catajo, now in Vienna, is built in three separate joints like a bassoon.
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Looking at the programme, the more unusual instruments included Alto Flute, Bass Flute, E flat clarinet, bass clarinet, contra bass clarinet, contra bassoon, Wagner Tubas, bass trombone, euphonium, pianino, celeste and cymbalom.
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Next came a double file of priests in their surplices, with a missal in one hand and a lighted wax taper in the other, chanting the funeral dirge at intervals -- now pausing, and then again taking up the mournful burden of their lamentation, accompanied by others, who played upon a rude kind of bassoon, with a dismal and wailing sound.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1
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Even more surprising are the number of standard orchestral instruments that are currently under threat - double bass, viola, horn, oboe, bassoon, tuba and trombone.
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It consists of a bass line only, which is to be played on instruments such as the cello, viola de gamba, double-bass or bassoon.
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Playing an instrument such as the oboe or bassoon as I do, one's initial focus at university or conservatoire was inevitably the brace of chairs available in the Western symphony orchestra.
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The baritone bassoon extended between the bassoon and the contra, and there is even a subcontra bassoon one octave lower than the contra bassoon in exceptionally rare captivity, possibly with a lamp shade.
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The rich tone and strong accents of Gabriel Beavers's solo bassoon were striking.
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It sounds like an orchestra of demented bassoonists playing at full tilt.
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Had you been a bassoonist, I'd probably have suggested a violist!
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Arranged for trumpet sextet and a continuo instrument (bassoon or euphonium are suggested), this piece can be performed in B-flat, C or D.
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The flute adds brightness to oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn when it doubles them at the octave.
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Playing an instrument such as the oboe or bassoon as I do, one's initial focus at university or conservatoire was inevitably the brace of chairs available in the Western symphony orchestra.
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I chose not to sidetrack here into the bassoonists' hypochondriacal woes.
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The bassoon was my instrument in high school, and as a child I heard the voice of Harold Ramis in a crowded lecture hall.
COMIXTALK
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Developed from the dulcian, the bassoon has never acquired a fashionable status among woodwind instruments.
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From the aft external monitors of Vanguard, she could not see even the aftmost tip of Sharra’s Gift or Bassoon, though there were no ships between Vanguard and them.
Command Decision
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To qualify they must be taking a full-time honours degree course in music studies and jazz studies playing trombone, tuba, bassoon, french horn, oboe, double bass or piano.
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Classes will be offered for the violin, viola, cello, flute, oboe, trumpet, trombone, and bassoon as well as composition and orchestral conduction.
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Allegra also plays the bassoon, not because she loves the sound but because she believes that this unusually difficult double-reed instrument will give her an edge on an Ivy League college admission.
THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE
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Two or three men intend to persuade you that they play on a broomstick, which is drolly brought in, carefully shrouded in a case, so as to be mistaken for a bassoon or bass-viol; but they succeed in nothing but the action.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
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There are no cellos, a disproportionately large number of double-basses, and big brass and wind sections but no oboes and bassoons.
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Two string quartets are utilized, as are a pair of French horns, piccolo, bassoon, basset horn, oboe and instruments usually associated with jazz.
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Matteo Ricci had brought with him a spinet, other Jesuits brought violins and flutes, cellos and bassoons and manuals on music styles.
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It is a charming piece, and performers and concert-planners should note that it is helpfully and economically scored for an orchestra consisting of just two oboes, two bassoons and strings.
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There are no cellos, a disproportionately large number of double-basses, and big brass and wind sections but no oboes and bassoons.
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The group's unique combination of oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, piano and soprano allows them to perform a diverse repertoire in a wide range of musical genres.
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The concertmaster (whoever it was) and solo bassoonist are simply fantastic.
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On this recording, there are nine violins, three violas, three cellos, a double bass, one flute, three oboes, one bassoon, three trumpets, a set of timpani, and a harpsichord.
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That usually refers to works that go to the extremes of the orchestra, beyond the meat-and-potatoes of strings and winds and brass: a stroke of harp, a shimmer of cymbal, the mellow birdcall of an oboe d'amore or the flatulence of a contrabassoon.
Hans Graf conducts Jean-Yves Thibaudet, National Symphony in Ravel, Debussy
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This music, scored for bright violins rather than violes, with oboes, bassoons, and cornets a bouquin, had qualities comparable with those of the vocal chansons, preserving plasticity of movement and enhancing clarity of texture.
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The performers here, being very good baroque musicians indeed, have deployed a variety of continuo combinations: harpsichord or lute with violone, gamba, double bass or bassoon.
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Clarence is the ultra-professional second bassoonist, always backing his principal, never complaining, even though he is twice as good a musician.
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It consists of a bass line only, which is to be played on instruments such as the cello, viola de gamba, double-bass or bassoon.
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As his debts accrued, he was finally forced to sell his bassoon and take a job as an insurance underwriter.
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I remember an occasion when all the musicians began to breathe at ease on my taking this piece at the true moderate pace: then the humorous sforzato of the basses and bassoons at once produced an intelligible effect; the short crescendi became clear, the delicate pianissimo close was effective, and the gentle gravity of the returning principal movement was properly felt.
On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music,
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Bassoonist John Clouser made the Lullaby a thing of beauty, accompanied by the three harps and muted strings.
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Possibly a distant ancestor of the modern bassoon, the instrument had a space at one end which almost certainly held a reed which generated the sound.
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The doublereeder exists in just these two varieties - oboist and bassoonist.
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At first hearing, the similarities between the contraforte and the contrabassoon are evident: both instruments hang out in the dark, lowest register of the double-reed universe.
Audio: The contrabassoon vs. contraforte
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Two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, timpani and the strings present the first phrase — marked pianissimo.
The Splendid Start to a Farewell to Opera
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Heckelphone, ondes-martenot, tubax, contrabassoon, serpent, octobasse, flugelhorn, euphonium are examples of musical instruments whose sex appeal does not live up to their exotic sounding names.
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Schreier sets a brisk but effective tempo here and the horn and bassoons with continuo are first-rate.
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The sound is excellent for its age and the particular timbre of oboes, clarinets and bassoons accompanied by the battery of kettledrums has to be heard to be believed!
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Charlotte not only teaches piano, but also voice, recorder, clarinet, flute and bassoon.
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On this recording, there are nine violins, three violas, three cellos, a double bass, one flute, three oboes, one bassoon, three trumpets, a set of timpani, and a harpsichord.
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Now it happened that a bassoon was the instrument nearest the box in which Aurora sat, and it was natural therefore that the bassoon attracted more of
The Holy Cross and Other Tales
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The sound is excellent for its age and the particular timbre of oboes, clarinets and bassoons accompanied by the battery of kettledrums has to be heard to be believed!
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They were entertained with extracts from Lord of the Rings, such as the piece Gollum, where the Navy tubas and bassoons imitated the drones of the didgeridoo.
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I play bassoon in a double reed group at my school and one member of our group has just bought a contra bassoon, and we're all really excited!
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The Germans called this sound schwachsinnige Musik, but the vice-admiral's name for it-"bassoon"-was the one that stuck.
The New Yorker
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As the soloist waits, pizzicato quavers hurry along a twisted version of the piano's cadenza theme in the bassoons , everything still piano.
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We hope to have a go at the Beethoven clarinet/bassoon duos next week-end, operational exigencies permitting, of course!
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The result is that we encounter unsuspected shades of gray, with solo flute and bassoon weaving ironic commentaries.
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His first career was as a bassoonist.
Times, Sunday Times
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My cousin Barbie was similarly rewarded because she played the bassoon, another unusual instrument.
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Here I must admit that for bassoon reeds, a decade or so of advanced macramé at night school is a sound investment.
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My cousin Barbie was similarly rewarded because she played the bassoon, another unusual instrument.
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Developed from the dulcian, the bassoon has never acquired a fashionable status among woodwind instruments.
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The quintet of oboe, flute, clarinet, horn and bassoon is led by Howard Nelson and will present a programme of contrasting chamber music.
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The performers here, being very good baroque musicians indeed, have deployed a variety of continuo combinations: harpsichord or lute with violone, gamba, double bass or bassoon.
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Also, sometimes when I'm listening, I get confused between clarinets and bassoons, and between French horns and trombones, so it's good to see the live performance.
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On this recording, there are nine violins, three violas, three cellos, a double bass, one flute, three oboes, one bassoon, three trumpets, a set of timpani, and a harpsichord.
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The heckelphone was developed in response to Richard Wagner's request when he visited the Heckel factory, a German bassoon manufacturer, in the late nineteenth century.
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Peter von Winter's contribution is a Sinfonia concertante for violin, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and orchestra.
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The Adagio is in A-flat, dipping into the clarinet's low, chalumeau register and the through leaps and runs which it shares with the flute and bassoon.
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The oboe is one of two commonly found double reed woodwinds (the bassoon is the other), a family of musical instruments that produces sound by channeling vibrations made by blowing on two thin pieces of material.
Chicagoist
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Two string quartets are utilized, as are a pair of French horns, piccolo, bassoon, bassett horn, oboe and instruments usually associated with jazz.
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Other unique curiosities are the 3 Sonatas that the composer wrote for each of the main woodwind instruments; oboe, bassoon and clarinet, although those for cor anglais and flute never saw the light of day.
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The mistake about the bassoon is a small one, and is, I suppose, borrowed from Coleridge, but it is characteristic.
The Art of Letters
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It is susceptible of nodes or modes as far apart as hyperphrygian and mixolydian and of texts so divergent as priests haihooping round David's that is Circe's or what am I saying Ceres 'altar and David's tip from the stable to his chief bassoonist about the alrightness of his almightiness.
Ulysses
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The tone of the _sarrusophone_ is something like that of the bassoon.
Music Notation and Terminology
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The double reed consists of two blades of cane bound together (or a single blade folded over and cut at the fold to separate the two blades) so that they beat against each other, as on shawms, oboes, and bassoons.
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The symphonic repertoire calls for the basic 2 oboes and cor anglais, just as it does two flutes and piccolo, two clarinets and bass clarinet, two bassoons and contrabassoon.
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Children are swapping the bodhrán for the bassoon and the tin whistle for the tuba as educators seek to bring classical music to the islands.
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Heckelphone, ondes-martenot, tubax, contrabassoon, serpent, octobasse, flugelhorn, euphonium are examples of musical instruments whose sex appeal does not live up to their exotic sounding names.
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It is made of brass and exists in several sizes, the only one ever used in the orchestra being the double-bass _sarrusophone_, which has approximately the same range as the double-bassoon and is sometimes (but rarely) made use of in the orchestra instead of the latter instrument.
Music Notation and Terminology
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I rather pleased Jones by saying that the hautbois was the clarionet with a cold in its head, and the bassoon the same with a cold on its chest.
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
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The finished bassoon reed can last for several weeks if not months.
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My cousin Barbie was similarly rewarded because she played the bassoon, another unusual instrument.
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Early dulcians were often carved from a single piece of wood; the modern bassoon has four wooden joints together with a curved metal crook or ‘bocal’ and double reed.
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There are no cellos, a disproportionately large number of double-basses, and big brass and wind sections but no oboes and bassoons.
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From the bass and double quint pommers came ultimately the bassoon and contra-bassoon, and from the alto pommer, an obsolete instrument for which Bach wrote, called the oboe di caccia, or hunting oboe, an appellation unexplained, unless it had originally a horn-like tone, and was, as it has been suggested to me by Mr. Blaikley, used by those who could not make a real hunting horn sound.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
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My cousin Barbie was similarly rewarded because she played the bassoon, another unusual instrument.
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Sackbuts are the forerunners of the modern trombone, and dulcians of the modern bassoon.
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Four bassoons and a contrabassoon play together - sandwiched between two huge crescendos on timpani and bass drum.
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E flat to the contra-bass in B flat; and to replace the contra-bassoon in the orchestra there is a lower contrabass sarrusophone made in C, the compass of which is from the double bass octave B flat to the higher G in the bass clef.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
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Minor variations in bore profile can affect intonation, and all bassoonists have to experiment to some extent to find fingerings that suit their own instrument.
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Vivaldi the red priest was an expert violinist but unlikely to have shone at the bassoon, as he was severely asthmatic.
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Even more surprising are the number of standard orchestral instruments that are currently under threat - double bass, viola, horn, oboe, bassoon, tuba and trombone.
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The sound is excellent for its age and the particular timbre of oboes, clarinets and bassoons accompanied by the battery of kettledrums has to be heard to be believed!
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To qualify they must be taking a full-time honours degree course in music studies and jazz studies playing trombone, tuba, bassoon, French horn, oboe, double bass or piano.
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The tutti strangeness is that of an orchestra without violas and cellos, but in which double basses, contrabassoon and piccolos are prominent.
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In those days none of the schools had any oboes or bassoons, but some of the high schools did own some old saxophones, clarinets and some brass instruments.
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That bassoon he played was made out of rich mahogany with red-gold keys.
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Recounting his early training on the bassoon, Baker starts to say he was "obs ...", before abruptly stopping himself.
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There was a rich, cohesive texture in the second movement's expansive themes, following the dialogues between paired oboe and bassoons, conveyed with expressive conviction, notably their final cadenza in duet.
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A 1900 train journey inspired Train Music, and Grainger envisioned it for a huge orchestra of 150 players, including 8 oboes and 6 bassoons.
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Then again, I'm not an expert on the Marines, but my guess is that a bassoon might rank lowish on the list of the things the ideal recruit would be expected to show up with.
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I'm a bassoonist, but I don't think that matters, does it?
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The bassoonist made the piece a thing of beauty, accompanied by the three harps and muted strings.
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The function of the double bassoon is to add weight to the bass.
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The sound of mandolin, crumhorns, bassoons, recorders, and various timpani, being woven into a rock structure is simply a joy to behold.
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The oaf wouldn't know the difference between a crotchet, a quaver, and a bash in the chops with a bassoon.
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Someone should also gently mention to Tilson-Thomas that the crowd that shows up for Takemitsu probably doesn't need the grownup version of the 'This instrument is called the bassoon! lecture.
Stravinsky and Takemitsu at the Symphony
