A4. Cooper, L. Hugh. "Bassoon Clinic Series, Part Four," Etude: the Music Magazine 47/6 (June 1949): 356.

   (Eb)
x x x | o o x
 a c#

   (Eb)
x x x | x o x
 a c#  Bb

A4. Cooper, L. Hugh. To the World's Bassoonists 4/2 (1974[75]): 4.

    Eb
x x x | o o o F
  a c#

A4. Edwards, Artemus. In Klimko, Ronald. Bassoon Performance Practices and Teaching in the United States and Canada. Idaho: University of Idaho, 1974, p. 64. Same as Cooper p. 276.

    Eb
x x x | o x x 
  a c# Bb

A4. Groeling, Charles R. "Cultivating Bassoonists." The Instrumentalist 47/1 (August 1992): 52. Hardisty, Donald M. "Tuning those Bassoons: Part II--Tuning Individual Notes and Registers." The Instrumentalist 36/8 (March 1982): 72. Moritz, Frederick. "A Dissertation on the Use of Alternate Fingerings for Some of the High Register Notes on the Heckel and Heckel-Type Bassoons." The Double Reed 8/3 (Winter 1985): 34. Cooper p. 274.

    Eb
x x x | o o x
 a c#

A4. Groeling, Charles R. "Cultivating Bassoonists." The Instrumentalist 47/1 (August 1992): 52. Cooper p. 288.

    Eb
x x x | o o o F
  a c#

A4. Karr, Matt. In Apfelstadt, Marc and Klimko, Ronald. Bassoon Performance Practice, Teaching Materials, Techniques and Methods. Idaho: University of Idaho, 1993, p. 67. For pianissimo. Same as Cooper p. 275.

    Eb
x x x | x o x
  a c# Bb

A4. Moritz, Frederick. "A Dissertation on the Use of Alternate Fingerings for Some of the High Register Notes on the Heckel and Heckel-Type Bassoons." The Double Reed 8/3 (Winter 1985): 32, 34. For fast passages for bassoons without the G# ring key:

    Eb
/ x x | o o x
 b

For fast passages for bassoons with the G# ring key:

    Eb
x x x | o o o F
  a c#

other fingerings:

    Eb
x x x | o o x
 a c#

      Eb
/ x x | o o x Ab
c

    Eb
x x x | x o x
  a c# Bb

A4. Popkin, Mark. In Klimko, Ronald. Bassoon Performance Practices and Teaching in the United States and Canada. Idaho: University of Idaho, 1974, p. 68. For pianissimo.

x x x | o o x
  a

A4. Swanson, Robert. "Pictorial Bassoon Fingerings." Woodwind Magazine 4/2 (September 1951): 7.

x x x | o o o
  a c#

x x x | o o x
  a c#   E


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