bassoon
Collocations
4ADJ.
loud, old, still
VERB + BASSOON
don't, heard, play, playing, plays, practices, wrote
BASSOON + NOUN
concerto, concertos, day
PREP.
about, on, up
Definitions
noun
A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges.
Higher and higher every day, / Till over the mast at noon— / The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, / For he heard the loud bassoon.
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.
verb
To play the bassoon.
To make a bassoon-like sound.
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6Higher and higher every day, / Till over the mast at noon— / The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, / For he heard the loud bassoon.
WiktionaryThe 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 fo
WiktionaryAfter 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.
WiktionaryWhen translating into English, the German word for "bassoon" is a stumbling block.
Tatoeba · #814599Are you still playing the bassoon?
Tatoeba · #953127Tom practices playing the bassoon every day.
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