“I mean, if you never tried playing an oboe, how do you know you’re not the most talented oboe player ever?” Steven Soderbergh, Film Director
One of the older members of the woodwind family, the oboe is generally made from African blackwood, has a conical bore, and uses a double-reed. Whether you are looking to Learn to Play Oboe, or you are after Concert Repertoire for Oboe, or you are looking to have some fun with some Film Music for Oboe, have a look through our sheet music, tuition books and scores, we are sure you will find something that inspires you.
The successor of the Middle-Eastern Shawm, a loud, brash ’out-door’ instrument with a larger double-reed, which dates back to the first few centuries A.D, the oboe first entered the European music scene in the mid-seventeenth century. It continued to evolve, adding more keys and changing the fingering systems, until the end of the nineteenth century, when two main types of oboe emerged, the Viennese oboe and the French oboe.
The Viennese oboe is slightly wider than the French, it uses a smaller, wider reed, and has a less complex key system. These two oboes were both popular into the twentieth century, but it has been suggested that it was the open support of Richard Strauss that put the French oboe ahead of the Viennese, and it is the French oboe, which uses the Gillet key system, which is the basis for the modern oboes we use today.
for: Oboe, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 444545
for: Melodic instrument in C
CD-ROM
Item no.: 800822
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 279868
for: Melodic instrument in C
6 Playback-CDs
Item no.: 620853
for: Melodic instrument in C
Book
Item no.: 831820
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 809370
for: Oboe, piano
Buch und MC
Item no.: 1534349
for: Cor anglais, piano
Music score
Item no.: 657192
for: Oboe, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1611386
for: Cor anglais, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1610788
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1701712
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 637348
for: Oboe, piano
Ensemble score, solo part
Item no.: 247698
for: Melodic instrument in C
Book
Item no.: 831992
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1200632
for: 2 oboes, cor anglais
Score, Parts
Item no.: 342606
for: Flute [oboe/clarinet], piano
Piano score, Solo parts
Item no.: 425958
for: Alto recorder, 2 flutes [3 flutes/ violins/ oboes], basso continuo
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 200396
for: Cor anglais, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 649539
for: Oboe
Ensemble score
Item no.: 289341
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 314965
for: Oboe, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 1618826
for: Oboe, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 1618415
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 1317531
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1147465
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 1703887
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 819532
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 819648
for: Oboe
Score
Item no.: 412266
for: Oboe
Score
Item no.: 412037
for: Cor anglais, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 465991
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 174547
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 175578
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 279873
for oboe solo and chamber orchestra
for: Oboe, chamber orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 255461
for: Oboe, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 382863
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 774203
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 858133
for: Oboe, piano
Ensemble score, solo part
Item no.: 116163
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1127878
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1128821
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 859775
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 859493
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 859274
for: Flute [oboe/violin], basso continuo
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 850291
for: Oboe, string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 274449
for: Oboe
Score
Item no.: 266589
for: Oboe, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 380306