The introduction also employs the use of the mediant to tonic relationship which further distorts the tonic key until it is finally played by the bassoon in the lowest possible register.

The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher.

Someone who plays the bassoon is called a bassoonist.

An example is Sullivan's use of two flutes, one oboe, two clarinets, one bassoon, two horns, two cornets ( a piston ), two trombones, drums and strings.

Among the latter, the SATB format woodwind quartet of flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon is relatively common.

Around Lully's time, it became a common practice to score this middle section for a trio ( such as two oboes and a bassoon, as is common in Lully ).

The bassoon is an exception ; it is not a transposing instrument, yet its " home " scale is F. For tin whistles the " home " scale is notated as D major rather than C major — the most common whistle, pitched in D, is therefore not a transposing instrument.

One theory is that it comes from a line in Ernest Hemingway's novel " A Moveable Feast " where in describing a particularly annoying sound, Hemingway remarks that it " was no worse than other noises, certainly better than Ezra learning to play the bassoon.

The 1926 orchestration, rarely heard today, is an adaptation of the original for a " pit " orchestra, which includes a single flute, oboe and bassoon, two horns, two trumpets and one trombone, as well as the same percussion and strings complement as the later 1942 version.

The lyric is by an anonymous author, and the setting is for soprano with flute, clarinet, bassoon, harp, viola, and bass.

43 ( 1926 ) is for oboe, bassoon and piano.

The subject is first presented by a solo double bass, followed by bassoon, tuba and, eventually, the entire orchestra.

The work is in four movements and is scored for two oboes, bassoon, two horns ( in E and G ), continuo ( harpsichord ) and strings :< ref name =" hcrl-chronicle-v2 "> HC Robbins Landon, < u > Haydn: Chronicle and Works </ u >, 5 vols, ( Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1976 -) v. 2, < u > Haydn at Eszterhaza, 1766-1790 </ u ></ ref >

The first and second Bourrée of the 3rd suite is sometimes used as solo material for other bass instruments such as the tuba, euphonium, trombone and bassoon.

The cantata is intimately scored for soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists, choir and a small orchestra of two violins, bassoon obbligato, and basso continuo.

The dulcian is the forerunner of the modern bassoon.

The contrabassoon, also known as the bass bassoon or double bassoon, is a larger version of the bassoon, sounding an octave lower.

The instrument was intended to serve as a replacement in wind bands for the oboe and bassoon which, at that time, lacked the carrying power required for outdoor band music.

He doubled on the bassoon, one of only a few jazz musicians to use the instrument.

Although the bagpipes arrived from the British Isles with a user's manual, no one was able to figure out how to play them, so bassoon player Khun Saman Siang-prajak went to the British Embassy and learned how to play the instrument with the British soldiers, and then became instructor to the rest of the Corps.

The contrabassoon reed is similar to an average bassoon reed in that scraping the reed affects both the intonation and response of the instrument.

The tromboon is a musical instrument made up of the reed and bocal of a bassoon, attached to the body of a trombone in place of the trombone's leadpipe.

The name of the instrument is a portmanteau of " trombone " and " bassoon ".

This, combined with organ-like stops and multiple keyboards ( the Telharmonium was polyphonic ), as well as a number of foot pedals, meant that every sound could be sculpted and reshaped — the instrument was noted for its ability to reproduce the sounds of common orchestral woodwind instruments such as the flute, bassoon, clarinet, and also the cello.

His first musical instrument was bassoon, with which he attended and passed an LSSO audition.

As regards his instrument, it is not clear whether he played the cornetto or the bassoon.

He also wrote the first French solo concerto for any instrument, a concerto for cello, viol, or bassoon ( 1729 ).

Mozart wrote the bassoon concerto when he was 18 years old, and it was his first concerto for a wind instrument.

Keyed instruments such as the clarinet, bassoon, oboe and flute need swedging when years of key movement has worn or compressed the metal of the hinge tube they swivel on and made it slightly shorter, so that the key can travel along the rod it is mounted on instead of being held firmly between the posts attaching the rod to the body of the instrument.

Although Blavet taught himself to play almost every instrument, he specialized in the bassoon and the flute which he held to the left, the opposite of how most flutists hold theirs today.

(" Double " is here used in the old-fashioned sense of a double-length and hence lower-pitched version of an instrument, e. g. " double bassoon " meaning contrabassoon.

Bassoon Bocal The bocal is used by inserting the cork end into the instrument ( in this case a bassoon ).

Barquin D ' an is a Bith musician from the planet Clak ' dor VII who plays a Kloo horn, a fictitious wind instrument that resembles a bassoon.

Between 1545 and 1563 he stayed at the royal court, where initially he was a descantist, learned to play the flute, the ' sztort ' ( an old Polish wind instrument, prototype of the bassoon ), the violin and the lute, and then he became a royal chapel musician with full rights.

The cromorne family, not to be confused with the crumhorn, was a sort of transitional instrument that remained in use after the oboe, tenor oboe, and bassoon had been developed.

He wrote one concerto each for flute, oboe ( later rearranged for flute and known as Flute Concerto No. 2 ), clarinet, and bassoon, four for horn, a Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra, a Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra, and Exsultate, jubilate, a de facto concerto for soprano voice.

A wind quintet, also sometimes known as a woodwind quintet, is a group of five wind players ( most commonly flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon ).

He is known to have composed 4 piano trios: Opp. 14, 45, 47 & 90, 13 string quartets, only two of which have been published, 2 Octets ( Op. 78 for 4 violins, 2 violas and 2 cellos and Op. 62 for 2 violins, viola, cello, bass, clarinet, horn, and bassoon ) a quartet for flute and string trio Op. 84, a quintet for piano and winds Op. 80, a quintet for piano and string quartet Op. 20 and several instrumental sonatas.

* Gott, man lobet dich, Cantata for the Peace of Paris, 1763, for 5-part chorus, flute, 2 oboes, bassoon, 3 trumpets, 2 horns, strings & continuo, TWV 14: 12

* Overture: Alster Echo in F, for 4 horns, 2 oboes, bassoon, strings and continuo, TWV55: F11

* Symphonie-Divertissement for bassoon, tenor trombone, double bass and chamber orchestra ( c. 1934, unfinished )

* Tanzsuite for clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet and trombone ( 1931 )

* Percosse ( 1959 ) for flute, trumpet, bassoon and percussion

* Nietzsche redet ( 1989 ) ( text by Friedrich Nietzsche ) for speaker, alto flute, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, 2 violins, viola, 2 celli, double bass, 2 pianos

Boehm did work on a system for the bassoon, and Boehm-inspired oboes have been made, but non-Boehm systems remain predominant for these instruments.

* Vivaldi's concerti for 2, 3 or 4 violins, for 2 cellos, for 2 mandolins, for 2 trumpets, for 2 flutes, for oboe and bassoon, for cello and bassoon ... etc.