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Contrabassoon Method 25.00 €

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Mastering the Contrabassoon with the Contrabassoon Method

The Contrabassoon Method is a comprehensive, practical guide for contrabassoonists of all skill levels. It helps develop technical confidence, musical expression, and a deep understanding of the instrument.

The book covers all essential aspects of contrabassoon playing: extensive fingering systems with clear diagrams, technical exercises for all registers, focused work on embouchure, articulation, and tone production, as well as exercises for breath control, sound, intonation, and legato. It also includes reconditioning exercises to maintain healthy playing habits and practical guidance for working with different contrabassoons.

All exercises are thoroughly explained and can be applied directly in both solo and ensemble contexts. Additionally, free video material is available to further deepen your understanding of the content.

Professional musicians describe the Contrabassoon Method as an indispensable tool that significantly improves their playing and supports them in auditions, concerts, and daily practice.

Whether you are a beginner or a professional, this book provides everything you need to take your contrabassoon playing to the next level.

Journal 5.34 €

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Record. Compare. Improve. Share.

The R’S Reed Journal is the ideal tool for documenting your reed-making process. Record essential measurements, compare reeds at a glance, and preserve your favorite designs for future use.

– Structured fields for all important data points
– Integrated graph for profile or thickness measurements
– Space for personal notes on playability, tone, response, or whatever unique observations matter to you.

Perfect for students, teachers, and professionals alike - the Reed Journal helps you track, refine, and share your reed-making progress with ease.

drills 1.0 60.99 €

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.drills. 1.0 is an established system for bassoon playing that Prof. Ole Kristian Dahl has developed over the last 25 years. The first iteration of this system was the result of his own daily practice, focusing on honing the everyday tools he needed for playing in orchestra. By implementing the system in his teaching for the last 15 years, he has received constant evaluation and feedback from students and professionals. Dahl's students have won over 85 positions in orchestras around the world.

This new fine-tuned edition is the result of this feedback and incorporates a decade of improvements in explanations and exercises. Also includes QR codes linking to video demonstrations.

Table of contents:

Biography
Introduction
Presentation of Drills System
Posture
Breathing
Pressure
Embouchure
Preparation
Digging Out
Intonation
Registers
Slurs
Timing
Half-Hole Technique
Single Tongue
Double Tongue
Vibrato
What is a Drills Day
Mannheim Noodle
Drill No. 1 & Primer
Drill No. 2 & Primer
Coffee Scales
Drill No. 3 & Primer
Flex Exercise
Drills - Example Days

Breathing Book for Bassoon 32.08 €

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Breathe Free

The Breathing Book for Bassoon by Kristin Wolfe Jensen is appropriate for college through professional bassoon players.

To breathe well means to breathe free of tension, and oboists who breathe well create a resonant tone quality. The Breathing Book provides concise information about breathing alongside etudes and activities encouraging application of this knowledge in musically meaningful ways. The Breathing Book teaches the truth about breathing, establishing a reliable foundation for improved resonance, articulation, endurance, and tone quality.

Big Book of Sight Reading Duets - Bassoon 29.17 €

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Sight Reading for Everybody

The Big Book of Sight Reading Duets for Bassoon: 100 Sight Reading Challenges for You and a Friend, based on duets by David Vining and edited by Kristin Wolfe Jensen, is appropriate for high school through professional oboe players.

The Big Book of Sight Reading Duets provides a fun and effective way to improve sight reading! The 100 duets are progressively arranged so every skill level is addressed, and there are a wide variety of styles, keys, time signatures, and other musical requirements for plenty of diversity.

The Big Book of Sight Reading Duets comes in flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon editions designed to coordinate with one another. If an oboe player has the oboe edition, for example, they can play along with a flute player who has the flute edition or a clarinet player with the clarinet edition.

Whether you play these duets with a friend or a teacher, sight reading with a partner provides an incentive for playing each duet without stopping because you don’t want to disappoint your partner. The Big Book of Sight Reading Duets also provides additional tips and advice for improvement to address a skill so important and lacking for many musicians.

Book "The Way of Cane" 41.53 €

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A Comprehensive Overview

As the sound-producing mechanism for the bassoon, the reed is a vital component in the sound of the entire instrument. While pre-manufactured reeds are widely available for purchase at music stores, this one-size-fits-all option hardly does justice to the unique needs of the musician and the piece. Many bassoonists, including seasoned professional bassoonist Eric Arbiter, instead choose to craft their own reeds. A nuanced and difficult craft to master, reed-making involves specialized machinery and necessitates special attention to the thickness, and even topography, of the reed itself. When done correctly, however, this process results in a reed that not only produces a more beautiful sound, but also holds up to even the most demanding musical performances.

In The Way of Cane, Arbiter demystifies this process for bassoonists of all levels of experience. Drawing from his decades-long experience as both musician and reed-maker, Arbiter provides a comprehensive yet accessible overview of the craft, from the differing sound qualities produced by changing the dimensions of the reed's blades to the changes in the reed's behaviors as it passes through cycles of wetting and drying during production. Small changes in each of these variables, Arbiter explains, contribute to the ultimate goal of producing a bassoonist's ideal sound. With step-by-step instructions, detailed photos that further illuminate the reed-making process, and a companion website featuring the author's own recordings. The Way of Cane emphasizes the importance of the reed to the bassoon's sound, as well as the harmony between reed and musician.

Excerpts in Context 32.10 €

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Build informed performances

Knowing what is happening in the orchestra during important excerpts is key to building a proper interpretation. These trios allow the student to hear what is happening without the need of an entire orchestra.

At the request of instructors at Juilliard, Mannes College, and Manhattan School of Music, many of the most common audition excerpts have been arranged for three bassoons and are sold as a collection.

One bassoon plays the excerpt, while the other two play the orchestral parts.
Several contrabassoon excerpts are also included.

Used by teachers worldwide including at

The Juilliard School
Manhattan School of Music
Mannes School of Music
Shanghai Conservatory
Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock
Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig

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Fingering Charts for Bassoon 7.00 €

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Horst Winter

Bassoon Technical Basics 28.00 €

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The series "Technical Basics of the Oboe" was published for the first time in 2015, and in 2020 the Bassoon Exercise Booklet was added to this series. The aim of all these booklets is to help the player to acquire/learn a systematic technique on the instrument - in this case the bassoon. In my opinion, technical exercises should be kept out of the literature as much as possible and practised separately so that the joy of music and music-making is not overlaid with too many technical aspects. The booklet is structured in such a way that 8 pages are devoted to one key in various exercises. The so-called modular principle can/should be applied at any time. The order of exercises given in the booklets is only a suggestion. In the case of difficult keys, it is even extremely useful to begin, for example, with the exercise: "1.4. range of fifths" before practising the actual scale 1.1. This way you can approach the new/difficult key by using a smaller range. The exercises are structured in such a way that both precision and speed are practised. Of course, the 8-page range of keys could be expanded considerably, but these 8 pages should not only offer a lot, but also be doable. It is frustrating if you can never be "finished". This should be avoided at all costs. So it is important to find a balance between: - Sustainable improvement in the technical area through intensive work as well as - Tasks that are feasible/manageable.

Tradition & Innovation Holzinstrumentenbau 29.80 €

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The 19th century was a time of upheaval in the history of woodwind instrument making, as the oboe, flute, clarinet and bassoon were fundamentally reformed and numerous new instruments were developed. In many orchestras, however, older designs were able to survive for a long time, as the new models were only hesitantly accepted. This report from a conference of the Institute of Musicology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich sheds light on this diversity, which is lost today, and places it in a comprehensive context. Experts from musicology, music instrument museums and music practice approach the extraordinarily rich innovations in woodwind instrument making of the 19th century from various perspectives. Innovative technical solutions and new instruments are examined as examples, but local traditions are also examined. With contributions by Klaus Aringer, Geoffrey Burgess, Beatrix Darmstädter, Josef Focht, Heike Fricke, Klaus Hubmann, Gunther Joppig, James Kopp, Thomas Reil, Albert Rice, Sebastian Werr, Henrik Wiese and Ann-Katrin Zimmermann. To the editor: Sebastian Werr studied musicology at the FU Berlin and the University of Milan; he received his doctorate at the University of Bayreuth, where he also habilitated in 2008. In addition to the history of woodwind instruments, his research focuses on music theater from the 17th to the 21st century and the social history of music. In 2011 he published an extensive catalog volume on the "History of the Bassoon" with the Wißner-Verlag.

fagottbasis 37.45 €

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This work is the result of years of collaboration with motivated, talented pupils and students. We have summarised our ideas and exercises in the form of targeted tips for independent practice in "fagottbasis". Suggestions from our teachers and colleagues, whom we would like to thank explicitly, have been combined with our own ideas and experiences. We make no claim to completeness, since, as is well known, many roads lead to Rome.

It is extremely important to us to deal critically with "fagottbasis". Even if one cannot always agree, we hope that the systematic discussion of the matter will bring success. The constant challenge and the will to fill the daily practice with new insights and experiences are the basis for later free and relaxed music making.

"fagottbasis" is intended to provide help, open up new perspectives and be a competent companion for daily practising. However, it is essential to think along when practising, avoids pointless and inefficient work and leads more quickly to satisfying results. The prerequisite for this is open-mindedness and honesty towards oneself. Of course, "fagottbasis" cannot and should not replace a good teacher in any case!

Complete Fingering Chart Bassoon & Contrabassoon 13.00 €

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Ricardo Rapoport

Tips & Tricks for Bassoon reeds 19.94 €

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Handy size 24x17, fits in every bassoon case!

The perfect bassoon reed does not exist. But everyone who plays the bassoon, whether amateur or professional, dreams of one. Reed problems can usually be solved in a few simple steps. This little book gives tips on playing in, setting up and maintaining bassoon reeds and introduces the tools needed to do so.

Holger Simon/ Johann Rieger: Tips + Tricks for bassoon reeds
(Languages: German/ English), 46 pages, 44 color photos, 15 graphics

Meine erste Tonleiter 17.51 €

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Pierre Martens

Die Geschichte des Fagotts 44.80 €

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Das Buch dokumentiert die allmählichen Ausformungen des modernen deutschen und französischen Fagotts von der Erfindung bis heute. Das reich illustrierte Werk runden ausführliche Beschreibungen von 75 repräsentativen Instrumenten von ca. 1700 - 1940 aus öffentlichen Sammlungen in Berlin, Leipzig, München, Nürnberg und Tübingen ab.

Sebastian Werr studierte Musikwissenschaften an der TU Berlin und der Universität Mailand; er promovierte an der Universität Bayreuth, wo er sich 2008 habilitierte. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen neben der Geschichte der Holzblasinstrumente vor allem auf dem Musiktheater vom 17. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert und der Sozialgeschichte der Musik.

Fagott - Alles über Fagott 39.94 €

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William Waterhouse war einer der besten Musiker auf dem anspruchsvollen Instrument und verstand es, sein großes Fachwissen verständlich und anregend mitzuteilen. Alles, was Fagottisten und Fagottistinnen über ihr Instrument wissen müssen, findet sich in diesem Buch, die Geschichte des Holzblasinstruments ebenso wie fundierte Informationen zur Instrumententechnik, Pflege, Spielweise, zum Üben und Unterrichten und zu vielem mehr. Wesentlicher Bestandteil ist das kommentierte Verzeichnis der Basisspielliteratur sowie ausführliche Fachbibliographie.

Practice Journal NOTABL_ 32.05 €

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Notabl_’s mission is simple: "We all want to live in a world with great music – but to achieve this, the world needs great musicians. Our contribution to this is the development of beautifully designed and user-friendly practice journals that promote education, inspiration, and thoughtful practice."

When you connect pen to paper, you connect more quickly and clearly with your thoughts and intentions. This makes your practice sessions more structured and effective. With many successful days, weeks, and months of practice, you will gradually become the musician you have always wanted to be.

What's in it?
- daily pages and weekly recaps
- room for notes in the back
- the notabl_method explained with examples
- advanced practice tips throughout the journal that musicians at any level can use in their practice
- quotes and facts about classical composers