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/bəˈsuːn/ · noun
A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges..
Higher and higher every day, / Till over the mast at noon— / The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, / For he heard the loud bassoon.
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.
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.
Use bassoon when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bassoon means A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges..
Common synonyms include fagotto.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Higher and higher every day, / Till over the mast at noon— / The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, / For he heard the loud bassoon.
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