
The Rascal Bassoons’ extensive repertoire is as diverse as the players--all who are comfortable with a plethora of musical periods and styles!
Looking for a particular theme for your concert? Is there a favorite genre of music your audience would enjoy? Or possibly a potpourri concert for your eclectic needs? Our vast library is here for your perusal. Overwhelmed and need help deciding? Feel free to contact us and we’ll walk you through it.
Renaissance era:
Byrd: Constant Penelope
Byrd: Earl of Oxford March
Dowland: Come Away, Come, Sweet Love
Gervaise: Renaissance Dances
Gesualdo: Merce Grido Piangendo
Janaquin: La Chasse
Janequin: Du Beau Tetin
Josquin: Faulte d'Argent
Le Jeune: Une Puce
Marenzio: Crudele Acerba
Marenzio: Vezzosi Augelli
Mashera: Canzona
de Rore: Dissiumlare Etiam Sperasti
de Sermisy: Tant que Vivray
Baroque era:
Bach, J. S.: 8 Trios
Bach, J. S.: Air on a G String
Bach, J. S.: Badinerie
Bach, J. S.: The Gallina Cuckoo
Bach, J. S.: Gott ist Unser Sonn und Schild (4 bassoons, contralto, harpsichord)
Bach, J. S.: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Bach, J. S.: Musette
Bach, J. S.: Sinfonias nos. 1, 2, 7, 10, 11, 14
Bach, J. S.: “Sleepers, Wake,” from Wachet Auf cantata
Bach, J. S.: various fugues
Boismortier: Concerto No. 1 in Bb, Op. 15, no. 1
Boismortier: 3 Sonatas
Clarke: Prince of Denmark's March ("Trumpet Voluntary")
Corelli: Sonata a Quattro in C
Corrette: Le Phénix
Greensleeves
Handel: “Allegro” from Concerto Grosso, Op. 3, no. 4
Handel: Menuet
Handel: Suite No. 3
Handel: The Water Music
Haydn: Divertimento in Bb
("St. Anthony")
La Montaine: Scherzo
Pachelbel: Canon
Purcell: Gavotte and Hornpipe
Purcell: Rigadoon
Rameau: Rigaudon
Sorrentino: Toccata in G
Telemann: Passapied
Telemann: Quartet in C Major
Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso
in Bb Major
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Vivaldi: “Larghetto e spiritoso” from Concerto in a minor, RV522
Vivaldi: Quartet in e minor
Vivaldi: Trio in d minor
Vivaldi: Trio in F Major
Zipoli: Festival Prelude
Classical era:
Fischer: Ballet Anglois
Gebauer: Trio in g minor
Mozart: Andante
Mozart: “Andante ma Adagio"
from Concerto for Bassoon
Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus
Mozart: Concerto for Bassoon
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Christmas:
40 traditional Christmas carols
Anderson: Sleigh Ride
Away in a Manger (jazz)
Bach, J. S.: “Sleeper’s Wake” from Wachet Auf cantata
Baker: Do You Hear What I Hear?
Beal/Booth: Jingle Bell Rock
Beethoven: Ode to Joy
Big Band All Ye Faithful
Bobby Vinton: Christmas Even in
My Hometown
Boogie Woogie God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella (jazz)
The Carpenters: Merry Christmas, Darling
Carol of the Bells (jazz)
Carols of Christmas
Ding Dong
Ding Dong Merrily on High
Elton John: Step into Christmas
Feliciano: Feliz Navidad
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Guaraldi: Christmas Time is Here
Hanby: Up on the Housetop (jazz)
Handel: "Halleluia chorus" from Messiah
Herbert: March of the Toys
Herbert: Toyland
Here We Come A-Wassailing (jazz)
The Holly and the Ivy (jazz)
Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (jazz)
Javits/Springer: Santa Baby
Jazzy Hark the Angels
Jazzy Little Town
Jazzy Merry Gentlemen
Jazz Tchaikovsky from
“The Nutcracker”
Jingle Bell Galop (4 bassoons, harp
or piano)
Jingle Bells (jazz)
Kent: I’ll Be Home for Christmas
Krajewski: Bassoon It Will Be Christmas (bassoons, orchestra)
Livingston: Silver Bells (jazz)
Marks: Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
Martin/Blane: Have Yourself
a Merry Little
Christmas
McCartney: Wonderful Christmastime
Miller: Let There Be Peace on Earth
Niles: I Wonder as I Wander
O Tannenbaum (jazz)
Pentatonix: That’s Christmas to Me
Pola/Wyle: It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (jazz)
Rollins: Frosty the Snowman (jazz)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (jazz)
Santa Claus is Coming to Town (jazz)
Styne: Let it Snow
Swingin’ Ukranian Christmas (jazz)
Theme from the movie “Elf”
We Three Kings (jazz)
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
(jazz)
What Child is This? (Greensleeves) (jazz)
When Good King Wenceslas
Saw 3 Ships
Winter Wonderland (jazz)
Stevie Wonder: Someday at Christmas
Tchaikovsky: Overture from “The Nutcracker” (jazz)
Yuletide Fantasy
Romantic era:
Beethoven: Hunter’s Song
Beethoven: Ode to Joy
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
Bizet: Carmen Fantasy
Brahms: 8 Waltzes
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 1
Brahms: Lo, How a Rose
E'er Blooming
Brehm: Colloquy and Chorale
Chopin: Grand Valse Brillante
Chopin: Prelude in e minor
Durflé: Choral Varié
Dvořák: “Largo” from
Symphony No. 9
Dvořák: Slavonic Dance No. 2
Dvořák: "Song to the Moon" from
the opera Rusalka
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance (jazz)
Fauré: Pavane
Fucik: Thunder and Blazes ("Entrance of the Gladiators")
Glickman: Variations on a
Brahms Theme
Gounod: March of a Marionette
Grell: Larghetto
Grieg: Holberg Suite
Grieg: “March of the Dwarves”
from Zug der Zwerge
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Grieg: Waltz
Holland: Cortège
Hummel: Quartet
Kousnetzoff: Andantino
Mascagni: “Intermezzo” from Cavalleria Rusticana
Matz: Quartet in d minor
Mauer: Nocturne
Mendelssohn: Scherzo
Mendelssohn: String Symphony
No. 7
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Mendelssohn: Wedding March
Mercandante: La Poesia
Metzler: Quartet
Moussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Offenbach: Can-Can
Pape: Serenades
Randhartinger: Two Pieces
Rankov: Two Quartets
Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumble Bee
Rossini: Barber of Seville Overture
Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals
Saint-Saëns: 2nd movement from Symphony No. 3
de Sarasate: Gypsy Airs
Schubert: Ave Maria
Schumann: Soldier’s March
Sibelius: Finlandia
Smetana: Overture to
The Bartered Bride
Strauss, J.: Pizzicato Polka
Strauss, J.: Radetsky March
Strauss, R.: Also Sprach Zarathustra opening
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
Tchaikovsky: “Dance of the Cygnets” from Swan Lake
Tchaikovsky: Kamarinskaia
Tchaikovsky: “Pizzicato Ostinato” from Symphony No. 5
Tchaikovsky: selections from
The Nutcracker
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6
Verdi: selections from the opera Aida
Verdi: selections from the opera Rigoletto
Wagner: "Bridal Chorus" from
the opera Lohengrin
Wagner: “Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral” from the opera Lohengrin
Wagner: “Pilgrim’s Chorus” from
the opera Tannhäuer
Wagner: “Prelude to Act III” from
the opera Lohengrin
Wagner: “Ride of the Valkyries” from the opera Die Walküre
Wagner: "Wedding March" from
the opera Lohengrin
von Weber: selections from the opera Der Freischütz
Weissenborn: Six Trios
Contemporary:
Baldwin: Ballade
Baldwin: Echo of Spheres
Baldwin: Maverick Fanfare
Baldwin: Midwest River Fantasy
Balent: Bassoonica
Balent: Three Dances
Barber: Adagio
Bartok: Dirge
Berlin: Three Mixtures for Bassoons
and Electronica
Bozza: Divertissement
Buss: Levi’s Dream
Carter: Song for a Friend
Corigliano: “How Like Pellucid Statues Daddy, Or Like A...An Engine”
Debussy: Golliwog’s Cakewalk
Dubois: Scherzo
Dubensky: Prelude and Fugue
Foin: Under the Lime
Fowler: Streaming Up
Frith: Hop Off the Vine
Gordon: Rushes
Gray: The Nereids
Hába: Quartet
Hartley: Suite for Bassoons
Hoover: Sinfonia
Jansen: 4 Characteristic Pieces
Josten: Concertante Music
Kabalevsky: Dance
Khachaturian: Ivan Sings
LoPresti: Suite for Bassoons
Lovinfosse: Involutions
Maxwell: Idylls of Four Goblins
McAlister: Bears
Meacham: American Patrol
Moulaert: Chorale Varie
Nelhybel: Concert Etudes
Nystedt: Music for Bassoons
Orff: “O Fortuna” from
Carmina Burana
Poulenc: Suite Française
Presser: Baroque Suite
Prokofiev: March
Prokofiev: Humorous Scherzo
Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess
Reynolds: Slow
Rønnes: Trio No. 1
Schuman: Quartettino
Schwartz: Reflections
Shostakovich: Little March
Simaku: Andante and Scherzo
Stravinsky: Larghetto
Villa-Lobos: “Preludio” from Bachianas Brasileras No. 1
Webb: Pump
Wilder: Suite for Bassoons
Jazz/Pop/Humorous:
Ager: Ain’t She Sweet
Alford: Colonel Bogey March
Amazing Grace (jazz)
Anderson: Bassoonists’ Holiday
Andy Gramer: Honey, I’m Good
Arlen: Follow the Yellow Brick Road/We’re Off to See the Wizard
Arlen: If I Only Had a Brain (jazz)
Arlen: It's Only a Paper Moon
Arlen: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
The Arrows: I Love Rock and Roll
Rick Astley: Never Gonna Give
You Up
Average White Band: Cut the Cake
Average White Band: Pick Up the Pieces
Bach, Jan: Lazy Blues
(Bach, J. S.:) Air on a Bassoon Reed
Bach, J. S.: Jazzified Bach Inventions
Balent: Bassoonica
Balent: Fantasy on Children’s Songs
Banana Boat Song
Beer Barrel Polka
Bartokowiak: Walk of the Blue Elks and Pagan Pachyderms (jazz)
Barroso: Brazil (jazz)
Beatles tunes:
All Together Now
Baby You’re a Rich Man
Back in USSR
Because
Birthday
Blackbird
Can’t Buy Me Love
Come Together
Day Tripper
Drive My Car
Eleanor Rigby
Get Back
Glass Onion
Hard Day’s Night
Help
Here Comes the Sun
Hey Jude
I’m Looking Through You
I’ve Just Seen a Face
Into My Life
Lady Madonna
Let It Be
Me and My Monkey
Norwegian Wood
Oh, Darlin’
One After 909
Penny Lane
Run for Your Life
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts
Club Band
She’s Leaving Home
Something
Strawberry Fields
Ticket to Ride
We Can Work It Out
Yellow Submarine
Yer Blues
You Never Give Me Your Money
Berlin: Alexander’s Ragtime Band
Berlin: Puttin' on the Ritz
Bee Gees: Stayin' Alive
Bizet: selections from the opera Carmen
Bon Jovi: Livin' on a Prayer
(theme from) Bonanza
Bratton: Teddy Bear’s Picnic
Bruno Mars: Treasure
Budziat: Minor Booze (jazz)
Budziat: Red Lips (jazz)
Buss: Dry Bones
Cannon: Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home?
Carleton: Jada (jazz)
Chicago: 25 or 6 to 4
Chubby Checker: Let's Twist Again!
Cioffari: Four Fagotten Rags
Cohen: Give My Regards to Broadway
Coldplay: Viva la vida
Confrey: Dizzy Fingers (jazz)
Corea: La Fiesta (jazz)
Corea: Spain (jazz)
Cream: Sunshine of Your Love
Curtis: Bucerias (jazz)
Davis: August (jazz)
Davis: Outside Looking In (jazz)
Davis: Pacific Daylight (jazz)
Davis: Zona (jazz)
Dennis: Angel Eyes
Desmond: Take 5 (jazz)
Douglas: Celtic Spirit
Douglas: What a Wonderful World
Eagles: Life in the Fast Lane
Earth Wind & Fire: September
Eden: Swings and Slides
Edwards: In My Merry Oldsmobile
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance (jazz)
Ellington: Caravan (jazz)
Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams
Filmore: Lassus Bassoons (jazz)
Fogerty: Proud Mary
Foin: Under the Lime
Fucik: Entrance and Polka of the Bassoon Players
Fucik: Thunder and Blazes ("Entrance of the Gladiators")
Gale: Harlem Express (jazz)
Gale: Loose Lady (jazz)
Gale: Meaning of Swing (jazz)
Gale: Mellon Dance (jazz)
Gale: Minor Excursions (jazz)
Gale: Sunny Face (jazz)
Gale: That’s a Plenty (jazz)
Gale: Tiger Rag (jazz)
Garrett: Wabash Cannonball
Garrett: Wagon Wheels
Gershwin: Fascinatin’ Rhythm
Gershwin: Lullaby
Gershwin: selections from the opera Porgy and Bess
Gershwin: Someone to Watch
over Me
Gilbert/Sullivan: I am the Model
of a Modern
Major General
Gillespie: A Night in Tunisia (jazz)
Grand Funk Railroad: Some Kind
of Wonderful
Guaraldi: Linus and Lucy
Hancock: Chameleon (jazz)
Hancock: Dolphin Dance (jazz)
Hancock: Watermelon Man
Handy: St. Louis Blues
Harrison/Smith: Spongebob Theme
Hartley: ‘Round the Mulberry Bush
Hartley: Suite for Bassoons
Hatch: Downtown
Heart: Barracuda
Hendrix: Purple Haze
Henry: By Heck
Holiday: God Bless the Child
Holst: Beetles Dance
Howard: Fly Me to the Moon
Hubbell: Poor Butterfly
Hupfield: As Time Goes By
I Was a Teenage Bassoon Player
Jackson: Thriller
Jobim: No More Blues
Joel: Just the Way You Are
Joplin: 4 Rags
Joplin: Bethena
Joplin: The Cascades
Joplin: Euphonic Sounds
Joplin: The Entertainer
Joplin: Pleasant Moments
Joplin: Reflections Rag
Karlsson: Toxic
Kern: All the Things You Are
Kern: Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man
Kern: They Didn’t Believe Me
Lake Street Dive: You Go Down Smooth
Led Zeppelin: Stairway to Heaven
Livingston/Evans: Theme to Mr. Ed
Livingston/Evans: Theme to Mr. Ed
Lloyd Webber: Phantom of the Opera
Mancini: Baby Elephant Walk
Mancini: Moon River
Mancini: Pink Panther
Maschwitz: A Nightengale Sang in Berkeley Square
Mercer: That Old Black Magic
Mercury: We are the Champions
Monk: ‘Round Midnight (jazz)
Morricone: Once Upon a Time in the West
Mower: Ford Fiasco (jazz)
Mower: Full English Breakfast (jazz)
Mower: Hiatus (jazz)
Mower: This Morning (jazz)
Mower: Yuppieville Rodeo (jazz)
Mungo Jerry: In the Summertime
Nagle: A Medley of George M. Cohen Songs
Nash: I Can See Clearly Now
Newton: Amazing Grace (jazz)
Nicki Minaj: Bang Bang
North: Unchained Melody
Norworth/Tilzer: Take Me Out
to the Ballgame
(jazz)
Ory: Muskrat Ramble
Parker, Jr.: Theme from
Ghostbusters
Peterson: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (jazz)
Peterson: Silent Site (jazz)
Peterson: L’Ultima Canzone (jazz)
Peterson: Who Needs Enemies? (jazz)
Phillips: Monday, Monday
Pizzi: Autumn Leaves/Mash (jazz)
Pizzi: Doofus (jazz)
Pizzi: Raizin Cane (jazz)
Pizzi: Trolley Song (jazz)
Porter: Night and Day
Pottle/Henson: Muppets Theme
Preston: Space Race
Primrose: St. James Infirmary (jazz)
Queen: Another One Bites the Dust
Queen: Queen Medley
Redding/Cropper: Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay
Reynolds: Rockin’
Rice: Jesus Christ Superstar Medley
Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumble Bee
Rodgers: My Funny Valentine
Ross: Hernando’s Hideaway
St. Thomas (jazz)
Samudio: Wooly Bully
Schickele: Blues Set No. 2
Schickele: Last Tango In Bayreuth
Schmidt: Try to Remember
Schottstadt: Variations on "Happy Birthday"
Scott: Dinner Music for a Pack
of Hungry Cannibals
Scott: Powerhouse
Senon: Flash Jazz
Shaw: Fripperies (jazz)
Shaw: Tripperies (jazz)
Sheeran: Thinking Out Loud
Sia: Chandelier
Silver/Cohn: Yes, We Have No Bananas
Silvers: April Showers
Simon: Sound of Silence
Smalls: Ease on Down the Road
Smash Mouth: All Star
Sousa: Liberty Bell
Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever
Sousa: The Thunderer
Sousa: Washington Post
Springfield: Georgy Girl
Stamps: When the Saints Go Marching In (jazz)
Stray Cats: Rock This Town
Taylor: Carry On Bach!
Tommy James: I Think We’re Alone Now
Tchaikovsky: “Jazz Tchaikovsky” from The Nutcracker
Uber: Give Me That Old-Time Religion (jazz)
Van Morrison: Brown-Eyed Girl
Volbeat: Lola Montez
Walker: Mr. Bojangles
War: Low Rider
Weezer: Buddy Holly
Wenrich: Moonlight Bay
Wild Cherry: Play that Funky Music
Wilder: Suite for Bassoons
Williams: Cantina Band
Williams: Rainbow Connection
Williams: Happy
Willis: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Wilson: I Get Around
Wilson: Surfer Girl
Wilson: 76 Trombones
Winter: Frankenstein
Wolfgang: Dance of the
Polar Bears
Wonder: Don’t You Worry
About a Thing
Wonder: I Wish
Wonder: Livin’ for the City
Wonder: My Cherie Amour
Wonder: Sir Duke
Wonder: Sunshine of my Love
Work: Make Believe
Young: Sahib Supreme (jazz)
Zehar: Jazz Latino (jazz)
Folksong/World:
Amazing Grace
America the Beautiful (jazz)
Banana Boat Song
Brackett: Simple Gifts
Bruno: Cuatro Dances Brasileiras
La Cucaracha
Curtis: Bulgarian Suite
Deep River
Dorff: It Takes Four to Tango
Duarte: Three Costa Rican Dances
Fisher: Goin' Home
Foin: Under the Lime
Foster: My Old Kentucky Home
Foster: Swanee River
Grainger: Shepherd’s Hey
Granados: Capricho Español
Greensleeves
He's Got the Whole World in his Hands
Holst: “March” from 2nd Suite
Irish Folk Tunes
Jacob: Prelude/Fugue/Scherzo
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
Kelley/Higley: Home on the Range
Kum Ba Yah
Larionov: Kalinka
Lussier: Bassango
Mango Walk
Mezo: Imagenes
Mignone: Cuatro Pecas Brasilieras
Mockert: Suite Argentina
Piazzolla: Escualo
Piazzolla: Libertango
Piazzolla: La Muerta del Angel
Rønnes: Grand Valse
Rønnes: Tango
Scarborough Fair
Schickele: Last Tango In Bayreuth
Shenandoah
Song of the Wounded Man
Toldra: Two Catalan Sardanas
Turkey in the Straw
Wabash Cannonball
Wagon Wheels
Weait: Suite of Early American Tunes
Weatherly: Danny Boy
When Irish Eyes are Smiling
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
When the Saints Go Marching In
Willis: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Yellow Bird
Zequinha: Tico-Tico