“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
Music score
Item no.: 928257
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 927717
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 927236
for: Oboe
Item no.: 130263
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 188378
for: Melody instrument (C), guitar
Score, solo part
Item no.: 178030
for: Oboe, piano
Item no.: 1645671
for: Cor anglais
Sheet music
Item no.: 1143
for: Saxophone [oboe]
Music score
Item no.: 332427
for: Oboe, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 1112299
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 350573
Piano accompaniment
for: Oboe, piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 298658
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 279807
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 1190152
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1186283
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 1178879
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1189118
for: Oboe, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 1702479
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1189949
for: Oboe [flute/clarinet/violin], piano
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 5351
for: 2 oboes, cor anglais
Item no.: 284443
for: Oboe [saxophone]
Music score
Item no.: 1109052
for: Oboe [violin/glockenspiel]
Item no.: 576779
Oboenschule für Anfänger ab 10 Jahren (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: Oboe
Item no.: 185902
for: Oboe, organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 679952
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 608344
for: Oboe, wind ensemble (9 instruments), double bass
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 149149
Based on the latest research, this sonata was probably composed by Nicolas Chédeville
Original Music for Recorder
for: Treble recorder [flute/oboe/violin], basso continuo
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 420898
for: Treble recorder [flute/oboe], basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 370476
for: 2 melodic instruments
Ensemble score
Item no.: 417926
for: Cor anglais, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1013998
for: Oboe, strings, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 649793
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 632630
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 963985
for: Oboe, piano [organ]
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1276792
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 333256
for: Oboe, piano
Score
Item no.: 890555
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1703987
for: 2 flutes [oboes]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 2867
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 665572
for: 2 treble recorders [flutes/oboes/violins]
Ensemble score
Item no.: 211463
for: Oboe, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 181338
for: Oboe, violin, strings, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 157199
for flute or oboe and guitar
for: Oboe [flute], guitar
Score, part
Item no.: 412431
for: Oboe, strings
Score, Parts
Item no.: 633933
for: Violin [descant recorder/oboe], piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 282505
for: Oboe, chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 822227
for: 2 oboes, bassoon, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 158422