Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 8
3. List of Illustrations and Music Examples 9
4. Preface 12
5. Acknowledgements 13
6. Author’s note 15
7. Abbreviations 19
8. Introduction 20
9. 1. Early Names; Precursors; The Bassoon Idea; The Founding Myth 24
10. 2. The Dulcian Family 38
11. 3. The Bassoon Idea: Early Relatives 65
12. 4. The Baroque Bassoon 81
13. 5. The Classical Bassoon, c.1760–1830 105
14. 6. The Scientific Bassoon, c.1830–1900 133
15. 7. A Tale of Two Systems, 1900–1990 168
16. 8. The Bassoonist’s World Since 1990 196
17. 9. The Contrabassoon 206
18. 10. The Bassoon Idea: Relatives after Mechanization 227
19. 11. Smaller Sizes of Bassoon 241
20. Epilogue 248
21. Notes 252
22. Bibliography 285
23. Index 304