Fagottini and Tenoroons
Donna Agrell, Thomas Drescher and Martin Kirnbauer
Schwabe Verlag Basel, Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG, Basel, Schweiz, 2025
The articles are the outcome of several research projects conducted at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis between 2017 and 2023. Two of them ("Fagottini and Tenoroons - Small Forgotten Giants" and "Out of the Bass Register - Uncovering the Organology, Pedagogy, and Performance Practice of Small-Sized Bassoons from the 18th and 19th Centuries") were supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation; a third and smaller one ("Neue alte Klangkörper") was funded by private foundations.
The authors include members of the SCB research team (Donna Agrell, Thomas Drescher, Áurea Domínguez, Giovanni Battista Graziadio, Zoë Matthews-Visentin, Letizia Viola) and experts on various aspects of the topic (David Gasche, Klaus Hubmann, James Kopp, Vincenzo Onida, Ricardo Simian).
Contents
Preface
Small Bassoons: Some History
Thomas Drescher: Instrument Families and Small Bassoons in Michael Praetorius' Syntagma Musicum
1619
Klaus Hubmann: Reflections on the Origin, Distribution, and Repertoire of the High-Pitched Dulcian,
Especially in the Northern Italian and German-Speaking Regions
Áurea Dominguez: Bassoons Come in all Sizes: A Typology of Fagottini
James Kopp: Small Bassoons by the Savarys: Context and Style
Repertoire, Performers, and Pedagogy
Donna Agrell: Rediscovering Forgotten Relatives
Zoë Matthews-Visentin: The Hamburg Link
David Gasche: The Tenor Bassoon in the Context of Harmoniemusik, Turkish Music and Military Music
Giovanni Battista Graziadio: Fagottino Players: Evidence of Historical Performance Practice in 18th and
19th
Century Bassoon Repertoire
Letizia Viola: Pedagogical Applications of the Historical Fagottino: A Report from the Classroom
Construction and Reconstruction
Donna Agrell: Notes About the Reconstructed and Printed Models
Ricardo Simian: Coming Full Circle: Using Digital Technologies in the Fagottini and Tenoroons Research
Projects
Vincenzo Onida: New Tools in the Making of Historical Woodwind Copies
Instrument Catalogue
Agrell, Áurea Dominguez, Giovanni Battista Graziadio: Instrument Catalogue of Small-Sized Bassoons, ca.
1700-ca. 1915
Donna Agrell: Images of Selected Fagottini and Tenoroons
Abstracts and CVs