Walter Damrosch used to say that when he was engaging a bassoon player he would ask him to play a passage from the bassoon part in Scheherazade.
And it must not be forgotten that this supreme cook is--or was--a bassoonplayer of the first rank, that he is a graduate of the Milan Conservatory.
Pogliani gave up the bassoon for the fork, spoon, and saucepan.
The old girl borrowed a bassoon from the bandmaster of the Rifle Regiment.
Indeed there may be generally observed in him an unbending, unyielding, brass-bound air, as if he were himself the bassoonof the human orchestra.
Defn: An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.
In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube.
An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.
The music was a bassoonand a violoncello, with a pitchpipe to enable them to start fair, and the singing was confided to the congregation in general.
The third and last of his Warsaw concerts was to be of a more perfect type than the two preceding ones; it was to be one "without those unlucky clarinet and bassoon solos," at that time still so much in vogue.
On great occasions the choir sang an anthem, in which the key-bugles always ran away at a great pace, while the bassoon every now and then boomed a flying shot after them.
In this model the characteristics of the bassoon are preserved, and the tone is of true fagotto quality extended in its lower register.
The modern wooden contrafagotto has a pitch one octave below that of the bassoon and three below that of the oboe; its compass extending from 16 ft.
Although the double bassoon is not a transposing instrument the music for it is written an octave higher than the real sounds in order to avoid the ledger lines.
The modern English doublebassoon is one designed by Dr W.
It is thus about the same length as the bassoonand terminates in a bell 4 in.
The first bassoon usually plays in the tenor register, while the second takes the lower notes.
Not only the musicians, but also their instruments, have got accustomed to this; the lower notes of the first bassoon are not quite in tune; the same thing applies to the upper notes of the second bassoon.
Beethoven had offered it to Peters in February, 1823, though at that time he described its accompaniment as being for two clarinets, horn, viola and violoncello, so that the violins and bassoon were added later.
Maehler remembered that at one of the general rehearsals the thirdbassoon was absent; at which Beethoven fretted and fumed.
Beethoven looked through it so hurriedly that Potter thought he had only glanced at it out of politeness and was greatly astonished when Beethoven pointed to a deep F-sharp in the bassoon part and said it was not practicable.
A canon in the first act and an aria in F [E] are more successful, though the pretty accompaniment with its three horns ~obbligato~ and bassoon is somewhat overloaded.
After a big tonal climax followed by the lugubrious monologue of a bassoon the work closed.
He often called on me and we played duets for bassoon and tympani, and then read Amiel's journal aloud and wept.
But to resume: "The fourth movement opens with Lenore's lamentation over her absent lover and her quarrel with her mother--the oboe being the girl and the bassoon her parent.
The wedding guest beat his shirtfront; he could hear the bassoon doubling the cello.
Also he quotes from Sam'l Butler's Note Books: "I pleased Jones by saying that the hautbois was a clarinet with a cold in its head, and the bassoon the same with a cold in its chest.
He uses the contra-bassoon in about all of his orchestral compositions (you will hear it to-day), and most of his piano works take the last A on the piano.
The bassoon and the bull fiddle--they umpah ump along.
The trombone, the bull fiddle and the bassoonignore her altogether.
The feet dancing on the crowded cabaret floor listen cautiously for the trombone, the bassoon and the bull fiddle.
Beethoven uses the bassoon largely in his symphonies, writing everywhere for it independent parts of great beauty and originality.
The invention of the bassoon or fagotto is ascribed to Afranio, a canon of Ferrara, in a work by his nephew, Theseus Ambrosius Albonesius, entitled Introductio in Chaldaicam Linguam .
On the bassoon the fundamental scale is that of F maj.
The bassoon has an eight foot tone, the compass extending from Bb bass [1] [Notation: B1b.
The pitch of the bassoon apparently lies two octaves below that of the oboe, since the lowest note of both is B, but in reality the interval is only a twelfth, as may be ascertained by comparing their fundamental scales.
The bassoon has been a favourite with all the great masters, excepting Handel.
The German and Italian names of the instrument were bestowed from a fancied resemblance to a bundle of sticks, the bassoon being the first instrument of the kind to be doubled back upon itself; its direct ancestor, the bass pommer, 6 ft.
Afranio and the fagotto or bassoon were in any way related; the author himself is greatly puzzled as to the etymology of the word.
Theoretically the whole construction of the bassoon is imperfect and arbitrary, important acoustic principles being disregarded, but these mechanical defects only enhance its value as an artistic musical instrument.
Weber has also written a concerto for bassoonin F (op.
The bassoon is composed of five pieces, which, when fitted together, form a wooden tube about 8 ft.
Therefore the difference in pitch between the bassoon and the oboe is a twelfth.
Our good masters employed them for strengthening the bass; but now the bassoon has acquired such importance, that solos are written for it.
Mozart would have done well to have left the bassoon in its original obscurity.
See his pretty trio for flute, bassoon and clavier (p.
The double bassoonby Stainsby made in 1727 for the coronation celebrations.
Tromba and Bassoonwere frightened out of their wits, and setting all sail they fled as fast as they could, and their ship was soon out of sight.
Bassoon and Tromba were let off with a severe reprimand because they were sorry for what they had done.
Footnote 40: At first he gave Susanna's charming melody to the bassoon and flute as well, but afterwards struck out both instruments, in order to allow the voice full play.
Herr Ritter, who plays the bassoon very well, sets out for Paris on the 12th inst.
Gerber, at least, seems to have thought it worth while to mention him as a cellist, though Burney writes of a certain Hebden as playing the Bassoon at a concert in London where the best performers of the Italian opera were employed.
The oboe family consists of the oboe proper, the English horn which is an alt oboe, and the bassoon which is the bass of this group of instruments.
In Italian the bassoon is called a fagotto, a name derived from its supposed resemblance to a bundle of fagots.
In opera, Meyerbeer made the bassoon famous by his scoring of the dance of the Spectre Nuns in "Robert le Diable" for it, and he also used it for the accompaniment to the female chorus in the second act of "Les Huguenots.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bassoon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
