A Guide to Effective Practice-Concentration on individual aspects of playing the bassoon will make it easier to identify and correct errors and imprecision. By working steadily through these exercises you can acquire a basic technique that will enable you to tackle difficult passages in the bassoon repertoire.Such meticulous attention to detail will help you achieve the freedom to follow your intuition in a spontaneous musical performance.Georg Klütsch b. 1951 in Düren trained as a music teacher in Mainz and studied the bassoon with Prof. Helman Jung in Detmold. For many years he was principal bassoonist with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble. He was professor atthe Franz Liszt Music Academy in Weimar. Since 2001 he has been professor of bassoon and chamber music at the Cologne Academy of Music also teaching international master classes.

Grade 3-This collection of pieces was written for the Trinity Guildhall Examination Board syllabus. It is aimed principally at students of grades 1 to 5 and intended to combine technical challenges with that most vital musical ingredient: fun.Four pieces for bassoon and piano by Graham Sheen.Drunken Sailor - the sequelThis needs a plaintive tone especially in the upper register where the dynamics are particularly important. To capture the mood of the piece those slurs in bars 35 and 36 for example might even be close to a glissando. Use your imagination to recreate the sailor's state of health!The Vulgar BoatmanNot only more 'hidden' melodies but moreappalling puns! (Volga Boatman for those not versed in Russian folksongs). This is like a waltz: it is written in 3/4 time but played so as to give the impression of one beat in bar. The melodies need to be well sustained so that we hear four eight or even more bars as a single phrase. Clues for the musical detective:- in addition to the Volga Boatman you might spot just a hint of 'Sailing down the River on a Sunday Afternoon' 'We Sail the Ocean Blue' (H.M.S. Pinafore) The Eton Boat Song and even Wagner's Flying Dutchman.Last Tango in HarrisEveryone must surely know these thinly disguised Scottish tunes but can you make them sound like a tango? Bear in mind that tangos are not jazz: the rhythm is quite strict but the tango character is in the tone and the phrasing. Notice how expressive the occasional shorter note value can be as in bars 4 and 5 in the bassoon part.Rheumanian StretchesOr was that Rumanian Sketches? This is a chance to play the main melody in two registers of the bassoon. Try to make a good even sound in both octaves. This piece requires careful counting since the phrases in the bassoon part don't always begin where you might expect. Think of this piece as a song.

Music Minus One Bassoon-This luscious quintet is scored for piano oboe clarinet horn and bassoon. Mozart's magnificent orchestration of the winds with piano creates a warm and glowing texture of sound and each instrument emerges at times for a prominent position. Cast in three movements: Largo/Allegro moderato Larghetto and Rondo/Allegretto. Truly one of the great works in this format and wonderful fun to practice and perform. Includes the complete solo part for the Bassoon printed on high-quality ivory paper and a compact disc containing a complete performance of the quintet with soloist then performed again minus the soloist. Accompaniment: Harriet Wingreen piano New Art Wind Quintet:Mel Kaplan oboe Tina DiDario bassoon Murray Panitz flute Aldo Simonelli clarinet

Eric Nelson: Bassoon Fingering And Scale Chart is an indispensable reference guide for bassoonists as well as educators. The fingering diagrams are clear and easily understandable with clear photographs of thekeys of the Bassoon. The scales can be used together with those of other instruments in the series.Included in the chart are:Fingering diagrams for the most common fingerings for all the notes in the standardrange of the Bassoon.A separate chart of the most common and useful alternate fingerings.All twelve major and relative minor scales and arpeggiosChromatic scale.Cross-references to alternate fingeringsused in specific scale and arpeggios.

Scales and Daily Exercises (Part 1)-Fernand Oubradous (1903-1986) was a French bassoonist conductor and composer. He is best remembered for his tutoring compilation Complete Study of the Bassoon. This Oubradous series comprises three parts. The first of these focuses on scales and daily exercises. These cover a range of keys articulation intervals rhythms and range among other aspects. Moreover Outbradous' Complete Study of the Bassoon Part One contains a detailed fingering chart for the instrument. Complete Study of the Bassoon is essential to the progression of aspiring bassoonists.

Performed by Janet Grice bassoon Accompaniment: Harriet Wingreen piano This collection of classic pieces scored for solo bassoon with piano accompaniment covers a huge span of time and musical styles from Bach (Bourrée I and II) to Dukas's Sorcerer's Apprentice. Includes selections from Carmen L'Elisir d'amore Pictures at an Exhibition and many many more! Includes a high-quality printed solo part and a compact disc containing a complete performance presented in split-channel format with the piano accompaniment on the left channel and bassoon soloist on the right channel. This affords the player the ability to easily dial in or out the reference solo part. (Notethat due to publisher's restrictions there is no printed part included for the two Grice selections.)

from Tone and Performance Studies-Julius Weissenborn is best remembered today for the teaching material written for use at the Leipzig Conservatorium where he taught bassoon from 1882. His two famous tutor books are still the most popular bassoon etudes in use today well over 120 years after they were written. This anthology represents the first-ever publication that contains all 11 of the extant full recital pieces for bassoon and piano that Weissenborn envisioned as the third part to this tutor in a single volume. Southern Music is proud to present this fine collection of Tone and Performance Studies to players of all levels edited by veteran Principal Bassoonist for the Detroit Symphony Robert Williams.

Written in English French and German this edition of Scales and Exercises is the second part of the second volume of the Complete Method for Bassoon by Fernand Oubradous. Including the advices of the author this method provides a set of scales studies to enable the upper beginner Bassoon player to gain in sonority and clarity. Also featuring chromatic scales at the end of the book this method is classic and progressive. Fernand Oubradous was a French bassoonist composer and conductor. This Complete Method for Bassoon is one of his main recognised works and was conceived in threevolumes.

To this day Eugène Bozza (1905-1991) remains one of the most prolific composers for wind instruments despite being a violinist himself. His 15 Daily Studies for Bassoon will enable the pupil to attain brilliant technique on the instrument. During his studies at the Paris Conservatoire Bozza won prizes for Violin conducting and composition as well as the Grand Prix de Rome. He then conducted the orchestra of the Opéra-Comique and became Head of the Conservatoire in Valenciennes whilst remaining a prominent composer. The exercises in Bozza's 15 Daily Studies ensure frequent practice ofrange intervals embouchure breath control phrasing articulation performance directions dynamics and chromaticism among other aspects. 15 Daily Studies for Bassoon is a unique and essential aid in the progression of advanced Bassoon technical studies.

Par VEIT ANSELMA. Brings aspiring bassonists from Adam and Eve to Mozart. Completely revised and happily optimized edition, fully packed with great bassoon pieces. - Slow and steady wins the bassoon race! The beautiful little pieces are progressing slowly but continuously for an effortless learning experience. - lovely and tasty exercises, etudes and duets that delight childrens' (and big childrens') ears - pitch range book 1: F-g + bb, f#, eb, c# ab, E-C (bass register) - original music from various renaissance and baroque composers, Anselma Veit and Julius Weissenborn - traditional pieces and entertaining music are combined for enjoyment and variety - in many duets both parts can be mastered by the student - chapters with rhythm only exercises for gettin' the groove - chapters with study pieces to apply and train newly introduced notes and rhythms - chapters with sight reading tests to see what sticks Humorously illustrated by the amazing Fritz Kotrba, who even made a google search for 'stylish girl's hairstyle” for a special contemporary look and artwork. A bassoon method that makes progress easy and learning fun and effortlessly. The new standard method! / Méthode / Basson

This new Bassoon method by the celebrated Bassoonist Pascal Gallois outlines for the first time extended techniques and different ways of creating sound on Bassoon. An indispensable and practical tool for composers performers and teachers.Topics covered: Traditional Effects and Current Sounds; Spectral Effects; Percussive Effects; Effects Without the Reed; Vibrato; Air Noise

Par TAYLOR SUE. Blow the Oboe and Blow the Bassoon are comprehensive tutors, each published in two volumes, with separate piano accompaniment books for the teacher. They combine to give students the greatest possible pleasure from the development of their musical potential. Starting off with the very basics, Sue Taylor gradually introduces more difficult material. Each volume includes studies, playing pieces, scales, arpeggios and much more. These tutor books are set as prescribed teaching material on the current AMEB (Australian Music Examination Board) manual of syllabuses for both Oboe and Bassoon. / Date parution : 2023-10-31/ Méthode / Basson

The Bassoon part for Vaughan Williams' Six Studies in English Folk Song adapted for Bassoon by Alan Hawkins. The piano accompaniment (Ref. H47) can be purchased separately.