Assertion: bassoon | /r/CapableOf | retain its function
Facets:
value: in later styles
type: TEMPORAL
value: as bass
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Thus, over the Classical period and into the Romantic, although bassoon retained its function as bass, it also came to be used as a lyrical tenor as well, particularly in solos (somewhat parallel to the treatment of the cello in the strings).
text: The bassoon retained this function in later styles, too, although it was increasingly entrusted with melodic tasks as well.