bassoons

Updated: June 29, 2025

You know what care is taken, nightly, in the composition of that scene, how the draperies are arranged for it; the lights turned off, and on; the fiddlestrings taxed for their utmost tenderness; the bassoons exhorted to a grievous solemnity. You don't believe, however, that any real soul of a Margaret ever appeared to any mortal in that manner? Here is an apotheosis also.

John Ruskin - Mornings in Florence

And he utilized the common instruments in original fashion, made the harps imitate bells, the wood-wind blow fanfares, the horns hold organ-points; combined piccolos with bassoons and contrabasses, wrote unisons for eight horns, let the trombones run scales

Paul Rosenfeld - Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers