classical

I thought a bassoon was a old world primate living in Africa.
No wait...Bassoon...my mistake. Never mind.

 

yup - its the bass instrument of the oon family... thus "bass" and "oon", maybe like saying "bass guitar"

 

wow i just love the term megafag though. "suits you"...not you jess, the...yeah.

 

now i'm lost

 

i'm lost too! love you-*mwah*!

 

weeeeeeeee yey much love to you too lozi **mwah**

 

This is a theory that a lecturer once posed in the 'Knowlege of Instruments' module in my first year.

I'm not so sure about it though, even though there is such a thing as a Tenoroon, exactly like an ordinary fag except tuned a fifth higher - who's ever heard of an instrument tuned in G - d'oh!

Anyway, I've always thought that the name Bassoon derived from the french words Bas meaning low and Son meaning sound - hence Basson in french. Whilst the Italian and German words Fagotto and Fagott derived from the wood used in making it.

I think that the Contrabassoon came about shortly afterwords and that the tenoroon is a VERY recent invention and the name came about with it, even though the Bassoon is as much a tenor instrument as it is a Bass instrument.

I think the idea of an Oon family is a myth and the fact that the name bassoon is made up of bass and oon is a coincidence. There is a family of them but I don't think that there was ever an Oon family, just a bassoon and a contrabassoon and then the name tenoroon coming about because of a pattern in the names.

 

my teacher told me it was true

 

hahaha thats great gonna go look it up...

 

As did my lecturer, who does know his stuff, but I think it's a silly theory and my theory about the french name makes more sense to me.

Nope, that's a Bazooki.

 

Another lover of classical music here:
Palestrina (even pre-classical )
Bach
Mozart
Brahms
Rachmaninov

I studied classical music for a few years after I finished school in fact. I love the classical guitar as well, although I'm not as familiar with it's repertoire. I used to study the piano and guitar quite seriously, but I'm more interested in composition now (using digital samples and other such sacreligious phenomena ).

P.S. I hope no one minds us Irish posting on the UK forums? The closer to home the better I think.

 

Palestrina is cool - it's especially fun performing the stuff he wrote before he quite knew what he was doing

 

i listen to a lot of pre-classical too... mainly renaissance, cos i love the sound of the lute

of course irish can be here - its the damn yanks we're bothered about they post here too, but we accept all = )

 

Hi again,
There's quite a good selection of online classical music at Hyperion Records' listening room in case you're interested. It's free (and legal).
If you know of any other good classical music resources, please post them. I'm even willing to pay a reasonable amount.

 

I have written a Piano Concerto, i call it Time's Concerto. Haha i dont really.

I wrote it a while back, i usually just play it now in music shops to show off

I really enjoy playing it, It has a hint of Debussy in it.

*plays*

 

wow! you rule? i want to hear it now don't suppose you being near nottingham meant you went to a uni open day?

 

Haha no sorry.


If you come to Nottingham or Lincoln i will play it for you!

 

Pachelbel's Canon is amazing!

as is Vivaldi's four seasons

 

Alibinoni's Adagio for Organ and Strings is another gorgeous Baroque piece. It has a lot of pathos - and I'm quite susceptible to such music :sigh:

 

its ok, if you spent aslong as i have in music technology trying to recreate it in midi then you wouldnt like it as much!

haha