User:D.l.bach/sandbox

New precursor to contrabassoon paragraph, with citations:

Precursors to the contrabassoon are documented as early as 1590 in Austria and Germany, when the growing popularity of doubling the bass line led to the development of lower-pitched dulcimers, known as the octavebess, the quintfaggot, and the quartfaggot (Kopp). There is evidence that a contrafagott was used in Frankfurt in 1626 (Langwill). Baroque precursors to the contrabassoon developed in France in the 1680's, and later in England in the 1690's, independent of the dulcimer developments in Austria and Germany (Kopp).

Kopp, James B. The Bassoon. Yale University Press, 2012.

Langwill, Lyndesay G. The Bassoon and Contrabassoon. Ernest Benn Limited, 1975.

·Ideas

1. So we should look to see the first DEDICATED contrabassoon part (solo or orchestral). Beef-thoven may be the first symphonic part, but I'm not convinced he's overall the first. 2. Restructure "current use" section; it gives historical uses.

·New information: 1.     2.     3.     4. · Info needs citation: 1. History of bassoon has zero citations. 2.     3.     4. ·Info needs to be fix: 1. The entire intro paragraph is weak. After we have fixed everything else, we should update it. 2. Should we look at the manufacturer list and update it since it's 5 years old? I think we should dump that section personally since it's not relevant information to what the contrabassoon is. That's more like an advertisement. Also, as a side note, if the manufacturer has a Wikipedia page they should include the fact hey produce contras THERE not on this page ya know? 3.     4. ·Ideas of new paragraph 1. Precursor to the contrabassoon (see above) 2.     3.     4. ·paragraph needs to be delete 1. The paragraph about differences from the bassoon is weak. The contrabassoon should exist as its own instrument! Comparisons to the bassoon should be noted throughout, but I don't know about this paragraph. 2. The entire second paragraph about range, notation, and tune is terrible. It's opinions. That whole section lacks citations, in fact. 3.     4.