The modern Woodwind family consists of recorders, flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons and saxophones. No matter your experience or your age, or your choice of woodwind instrument, we have sheet music, scores and tuition books for all, in a wide range of genres and styles.
Woodwind instruments began to evolve thousands of years ago. The first flutes were believed to have been up to 50,000 years old, and through the ages, old flute-like instruments have been discovered that were carved from various different woods, and even bones from birds or bears!
Through the medieval, renaissance and baroque periods, the most common woodwind instruments, recorder, flute, oboe and bassoon, developed, and the clarinet joined them from the middle of the 18th century. The first woodwind instruments had no reeds, the flutes and recorders. With the dawn of the double-reed, oboes and bassoons developed, and the clarinet was the first single reed instrument to join the family.
In the 19th century, the first saxophones started to appear, which despite being made of brass, were counted among the woodwind instruments, because they are all single reed instruments, employing a very similar finger and key system to the clarinet.
Although the saxophone is a relatively minor instrument within the classical symphony orchestra, it did however, help the woodwind family to take a prominent role in various modern musical styles, including jazz, soul, pop and rock music.
for: Instrument [voice]
Cards (teaching material)
Item no.: 668968
Complete Film Series
Piano Accompaniment for the Instrumental Solos Series
for: Wind instrument (C/B-flat/E-flat), piano
Sheet music (piano accompaniment), online playback
Item no.: 606546
for: Flute
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1356019
for: Descant (soprano) recorder; piano ad lib.
Music lesson book
Item no.: 273686
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 214566
for: Bass clarinet
Buch
Item no.: 1542113
for: 1–2 alto saxophones
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 223736
for: Flute
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 562431
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 848930
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1556400
In an arrangement by A. E. Müller after the Clarinet Concerto K. 622
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Flute, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 170675
for: Descant recorder
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 658474
for: Flute
Music lesson book
Item no.: 646085
for: Melody instrument (C/B-flat/E-flat)
Music lesson book
Item no.: 370847
50 Ways to Improve Your Improvisational Skills
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat)
Music lesson book, online playback
Item no.: 342815
for: Flute
Music lesson book, DVD
Item no.: 613118
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book
Item no.: 144468
Sound and Articulation
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book
Item no.: 445237
for: Melody instrument (C/B-flat/E-flat)
Music score
Item no.: 107344
50 Popular Classics in Easy Arrangements
for flute and piano (with downloadable piano accompaniment)
for: Flute; piano ad lib.
Music score, online mp3/pdf with piano accompaniment
Item no.: 657836
Italian Music
for: 2–4 recorders
Ensemble score
Item no.: 355816
for: Recorder, Orff instruments
Ensemble score
Item no.: 354027
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 476662
for: Melody instrument (C/B-flat/E-flat/C low); rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Music book, 2 CDs
Item no.: 601171
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 296480
for: Tin whistle
Music lesson book
Item no.: 417633
for: Clarinet; piano ad lib.
Music score
Item no.: 101533
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Flute
Music score, CD
Item no.: 1162440
Flute teaching material
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1165517
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Work book (educational book)
Item no.: 776055
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part, online audio (playback)
Item no.: 862622
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Buch + CD
Item no.: 560953
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 827610
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book
Item no.: 696060
for: Treble recorder
Music lesson book
Item no.: 213756
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 403601
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1161814
for: Flute, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 466067
for: Clarinet, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1612273
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 372877
from Carmen
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 722341
for: Flute
Music score, CD
Item no.: 576442
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 301266
for: 1-2 flutes; piano ad lib.
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 146871
for: 1-2 flutes; piano ad lib.
Music lesson book
Item no.: 114215
for: Flute, guitar
Music score, solo part
Item no.: 414895
Edition Schott
for: Treble recorder
Music score
Item no.: 752318
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 267139