double bassoon

The function of the double bassoon is to add weight to the bass.

The double bassoon should only be used, as a general rule, in fully scored passages.

Beethoven gives the double bassoon a very exacting part in the Choral Symphony.

The double bassoon acts as an excellent 'double bass' to the brass in the p and pp when used alone.

The bassoon has a larger version: the contrabassoon or double bassoon which sounds an octave lower.

Richard Wagner used the serpent in place of the double bassoon in his opera Rienzi.

When the string bass, saxophones and double bassoon of "Yamoan" sound gratingly ugly, we know the composer knows it.

Contrabassoon (Double bassoon)

Bassoons, double bassoon, bass clar. (and clarinets).

The double bassoon part was attached ad lib, since in Dvořák's time it was not easy to obtain this unusual instrument.

They are the piccolo, alto flute, cor anglais (or English horn), bass clarinet, and double bassoon.

Opus 143 'A Double Bassoon Fantasy' (2011) 2 bassoons.

Vandoren also produces double reeds for oboes, English horns, bassoons and double bassoons.

The tone is rich and full except for the lowest notes, which are unavoidably a little rough in quality, but much more sonorous than the corresponding notes on the double bassoon.

Concerto for twelve wind instruments, flute, piccolo, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, bassoon, double bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone and tuba.

("Double" is here used in the old-fashioned sense of a double-length and hence lower-pitched version of an instrument, e.g. "double bassoon" meaning contrabassoon.)

For his large-scale orchestral pieces, Sullivan added a second oboe part, sometimes double bassoon and bass clarinet, more horns, trumpets, tuba, and sometimes an organ and/or a harp.

Therefore, Shostakovich reorchestrated the bell's tolling by the simultaneous playing of seven instruments-bass clarinet, double bassoon, French horns, gong, harps, piano, and double basses (at an octave).

Woodwinds: 2 flutes, piccolo (doubling on 3rd flute), 2 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons (3rd doubling on double bassoon)

The introduction to the fifth movement re-enacts this scene as a rising line on tubas supported by two double bassoons slowly tries to make headway and is repeatedly negated by the loud (but muffled) drum strokes.

The symphony is scored for two flutes, piccolo (doubling alto flute), two oboes, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, double bassoon, four horns, three trumpets, two trombones, timpani, glockenspiel, crotales, marimba, harp, and strings.

If there were no tuba in the score, the double basses would be used col arco to help sustain the pedal B , but with the tuba (and also, possibly the double bassoon) present, they are better employed pizzicati to support the rest of the strings.

A leisurely modulating canon in eight parts begins in C minor on solo double bassoon, and continues through D minor, E minor, F minor, B minor, F minor, E minor, and B minor.

We thus have violas, cellos, cor anglais, and four horns for our middle line; violins, flutes, oboes, clarinets, and trumpets for the top part of the structure; double basses, bassoons, double bassoon, bass clarinet, tuba, and trombones for the bass line.

The symphony is scored for piccolo, 3 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, double bassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, tenor drum, snare drum, cymbals, tambourine, triangle, gong, glockenspiel, celesta, harp, strings.