bassoon
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[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bəˈsuːn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) enPR: bə-so͞onʹ, IPA(key): /bəˈsun/
- Hyphenation: bas‧soon
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -uːn
Noun
[edit]bassoon (plural bassoons)
- A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges.
- Synonym: (dated) fagotto
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
- Higher and higher every day, / Till over the mast at noon— / The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, / For he heard the loud bassoon.
- 1834, Arnold Merrick, transl., Methods of Harmony, Figured Base, and Composition, translation of original by Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, page 303:
- The most convenient and natural order is, perhaps, the following: the upper staff may have the flute-part, because it has the highest notes, and, therefore, requires most room above the staff; then follow the parts for the hautboys, clarinets, horns, bassoons, tromboni, trumpets, and drums; the upper half of the page thus containing the wind-instruments: the lower half belongs to the violins, viola, voices, violoncello, and double base.
- 2018, Robert Philip, The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 465:
- After another alternation of the two elements, there is a more playful episode, in which flute and bassoon take up the first element, with swooping glissando on the ondes Martenot.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]musical instrument in the woodwind family
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Verb
[edit]bassoon (third-person singular simple present bassoons, present participle bassooning, simple past and past participle bassooned)
- To play the bassoon.
- To make a bassoon-like sound.
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