“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, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 275619
for: 2 treble recorders [flutes/oboes/violins]
Ensemble score
Item no.: 211463
for: Oboe
Item no.: 616929
for: Oboe, organ
Score, part
Item no.: 580049
for: Oboe, string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 183765
for: Oboe, string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 123315
for: Melody instrument, concert band
Score
Item no.: 1652331
for: Oboe, piano
Book
Item no.: 1107047
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 908742
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 883278
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 892070
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 880647
for: Oboe, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 101657
for 2 oboes and strings (Score)
for: 2 oboes, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1555953
for: Flute, oboe, strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 231689
for: Oboe
Score
Item no.: 326414
for: Oboe, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 320611
for: Oboe, string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 300150
for: Oboe, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 564995
for: Cor anglais, organ
Score
Item no.: 265963
for: Flute [oboe/ bassethorn/ bassoon], orchestra
Score
Item no.: 696398
for: Melodic instrument in C, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 156521
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 659319
for: Oboe
Item no.: 168116
for: Cor anglais, piano
Item no.: 282385
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 883088
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 885226
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 274722
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 659037
for: Cor anglais, harp
Music score
Item no.: 265420
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 883601
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 839291
for: Oboe
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 187104
for: 2 oboes
Music score
Item no.: 150624
for: Oboe, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 388587
for: 3 oboes, bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 771209
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 780579
for: Oboe, organ
Score, 2 Single parts
Item no.: 1633647
for: Oboe, organ
Score, 2 Single parts
Item no.: 1633609
from: Il primo libro di Capricci, Rom 1624
for: Recorder [flute], harpsichord [organ/piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 6449
for: Melody instrument (C), piano [keyboard/guitar]
Piano score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 4025
for: 2 flutes [oboes/violins]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 3855
for: Flute [oboe/violin], basso continuo
Score, parts, audio files
Item no.: 4764
for: Violin [flute/oboe], basso continuo
Score, parts, audio files
Item no.: 4676
for: 2 flutes [oboes/violins]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 4428