bassoon en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- bə-so͞onʹ (General-American)
- /bəˈsuːn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (US) audio
- (Southern-England) audio
- /bəˈsun/ (General-American)
Etymology
Borrowed from French basson.
Meanings
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A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges.
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.
1834, Arnold Merrick, transl., Methods of Harmony, Figured Base, and Composition, translation of original by Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, page 303: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.
2018, Robert Philip, The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 465:Higher and higher every day, / Till over the mast at noon— / The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, / For he heard the loud bassoon.
1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bassoons | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
French bassoon · tenoroon · bassooner · tromboon · sausage bassoon · bassoonist · contrabassoon
Synonyms
Translations (62)
lv fagots (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · vo basun (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · da fagot (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · it fagotto (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · fo fagott (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · cs fagot (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · et fagott (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · ja ファゴット (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · th บาสซูน (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · no fagott (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · kk фагот (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · el φαγκότο (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · ja バスーン (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · ca fagot (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · tl bahon (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · cmn 大管 (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · io basono (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · tr fagot (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · bg фагот (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · yi פֿאַגאָט (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · es fagot (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · fr basson (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · vo fagöm (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · az faqot (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · ro fagot (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · sv fagott (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · cmn 巴松管 (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · sk fagot (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · sh фа̀гот (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · pl fagot (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · ko 바순 (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · eo hobojego (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · hi बसून (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · nl fagot (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · sw basuni (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · mi pūhoru (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · gd torm-fheadan (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · eo fagoto (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · sl fagót (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · cy basŵn (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · cmn 低音管 (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · ka ფაგოტი (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · lt fagotas (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · de Fagott (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · ru фаго́т (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · ast fagó (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · is fagott (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · mk фагот (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · id fagot (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · sq fagot (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · he בסון (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · uk фаго́т (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · pt fagote (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · hu fagott (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · hy ֆագոտ (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · es bajón (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · ga basún (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · dsb fagot (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · fi fagotti (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · sh fàgot (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · ar زمخر (musical instrument in the woodwind family) · vi kèn fagôt (musical instrument in the woodwind family)