The Orchestral Instruments And What They Do a Primer for Concert Goers
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. . Somewhat like 'cello An excellent bass Best r, eg V? ter for tone> but Burner. melodies. BASSOON THE BASSOON 61 The bassoons are used in the orchestra for many purposes, chief of which are: (1) to provide or to reenforce the bass; (2) to "fill up" the harmony in the middle, for which their round yet unobtrusive tone well suits them ; (3) to outline secondary melodic figures accom- panying the chief melody; (4) to double a melody given out by some other instrument; (5) to give the melody alo...ne. There is an indescribable grotesqueness in the sound of the bassoon, especially when it is played staccato, that has earned for it the repu- tation of being "the clown of the orchestra. " This is hardly fair to the versatility of the instrument ; but it is certainly capable of being irresistibly ludicrous. Beethoven, of all com- posers the most humorous, has given the bassoon a prominent part in his most jovial symphony the Eighth examples from which are shown in Figure XXXIII. Mendelssohn, FIGURE XXXIII.
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