Crossword clues for bassoon
bassoon
- The grandfather, in "Peter and the Wolf"
- Deep-toned woodwind
- Wind instrument pitched an octave lower than its smaller cousin
- A double-reed instrument
- The tenor of the oboe family
- Deep-voiced woodwind
- "For he heard the loud ___"
- Woodwind instrument
- Instrument produced by graduates thus performing
- Instrument bishop's playing in the near future
- Reed instrument
- Musical instrument
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bassoon \Bas*soon"\, n. [F. basson, fr. basse bass; or perh. fr. bas son low sound. See Bass a part in music. ] (Mus.) A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.
Note: Its compass comprehends three octaves. For convenience of carriage it is divided into two parts; whence it is also called a fagot.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges. vb. 1 To play the #Noun. 2 To make a bassoon-like sound.
WordNet
n. a double-reed instrument; the tenor of the oboe family
Wikipedia
The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor clefs, and occasionally the treble. Appearing in its modern form in the 19th century, the bassoon figures prominently in orchestral, concert band, and chamber music literature. The bassoon is a non- transposing instrument known for its distinctive tone color, wide range, variety of character and agility. Listeners often compare its warm, dark, reedy timbre to that of a male baritone voice. Someone who plays the bassoon is called a bassoonist.
Bassoon refers to a musical instrument. See Bassoon.
Bassoon can also refer to:
- Bassoon, a three-stage thermonuclear device tested as the Zuni shot of operation Redwing
- Bassoon Prime, a three-stage thermonuclear device tested as the Tewa shot of operation Redwing
- Christiaan Basson, a South African golfer
Usage examples of "bassoon".
It was a not unbewitching sound, a mix of flute and bassoon, my consonants slightly slurred, a rush and breathiness to most of my pronouncements.
In 1766, six years after his appointment, this band numbered seventeen instruments--six violins and viola, one violoncello, one double bass, one flute, two oboes, two bassoons and four horns.
From his first works onwards, he proceeded along the true symphonic path, and an orchestra of two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, drums, and the usual strings fairly represents the result of his contributions to its development up to the first successful experiments of Mozart.
We got rid of all gloom in the excitement of the exercise, and our pleasure was increased by the arrival of the Gimmerton band, mustering fifteen strong: a trumpet, a trombone, clarionets, bassoons, French horns, and a bass viol, besides singers.
One of the Rasoumovsky quartets played in the background, rising eloquently above the drumbeats of the rain: as we soared high, Beethoven gave us a mystic noise, a second cellist unaccountably seeming to join the group, even an oboe at odd moments, a transcendental bassoon below the strings.
It was a not unbewitching sound, a mix of flute and bassoon, my consonants slightly slurred, a rush and breathiness to most of my pronouncements.
Manny Friedman sniffed, and then took out a crisp white handkerchief and blew his nose like the second bassoon in the Boston Pops.
The tuneful village choir,With flute, bassoon, and clarionet, Their notes rose high and higher.
An artless tune, much like a folksong, was played by a solo bassoon andantino and caprlccioso, happy-go-lucky.
His real love, of course, is Sylvia Woodall, Sylvia the bassoon player.
The tuneful village choir,With flute, bassoon, and clarionet, Their notes rose high and higher.
There were sixteen violins, four tenors, three 'celli, four double basses, flutes, oboes, bassoons, trumpets and drums.
An artless tune, much like a folksong, was played by a solo bassoon andantino and capriccioso, happy-go-lucky.
It languished a little when the present Duke in his youth insisted upon having his own operas played there, and it is said one day, in a fury, from his place in the orchestra, when he attended a rehearsal, broke a bassoon on the head of the Chapel Master, who was conducting, and led too slow.
We used to sit together on the wharfs down on the New York water-front, he with a bassoon and me with an oboe, and we'd blend minor keys in African harmonics a thousand years old until the rats would crawl up the posts and sit round groaning and squeaking like dogs will in front of a phonograph.