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The Double-Bassoon: Its Origin and Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Lyndesay G. Langwill
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The earliest printed account of the Bassoon occurs in Ludovico Zacconi's Prattica di Musica, first published in Venice in 1592. As this book is rare and no facsimile edition or translation has appeared, the following extract1 is of interest and contains the earliest allusion to a Bassoon of deeper pitch than the type instrument:—

The Fagotta chorista (i.e. Chorist Bassoon) goes from the octave of C fa ut of the bass to the B fa b mi above. They call it Fagotto chorista because there is of it another which is not of its pitch, but a little higher or a little deeper.

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Proceedings of the Musical Association , Volume 69 , 1942 , pp. 1 - 34
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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1942

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