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.
Die bekanntesten Weihnachtslieder in leichten Sätzen
Edition Vieweg (Musikschätze vergangener Zeiten)
for: Descant recorder
Single part(n)
Item no.: 247067
for: Flute, piano
Item no.: 121049
for: 3 recorders
Item no.: 147369
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Treble recorder (single part)
Item no.: 143445
Piano Accompaniment
for: 1–3 Wind Instruments; Piano ad lib.
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 1652906
for: 2 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829996
Duets and trios for flexible instrumentation
correlated with "Accent on Achievement 1"
for: Winds class [alto saxophone/baritone saxophone (E-flat)]
Single part
Item no.: 692119
Duets and trios for flexible instrumentation
correlated with "Accent on Achievement 1"
for: Winds class [clarinet alto]
Single part
Item no.: 692116
for: Clarinet
Music score, CD
Item no.: 313054
for: Clarinet, piano
Book
Item no.: 1006448
for: Ocarina
Buch
Item no.: 1026927
for: 2 flutes (duet)
Item no.: 1352162
for: 4 recorders (SATB), percussion
Treble recorder (single part)
Item no.: 243586
for: Choir (one voice), flute, guitar, latin percussion
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1014986
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Study score
Item no.: 878038
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Single part
Item no.: 242883
Weihnachtsmusik aus der Zeit Ludwig XIV.
for: 4 recorders (SATB) [recorder orchestra]; harpsichord ad lib.
Single part tenor recorder 1
Item no.: 690886
for: 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1132467
for: 3 clarinets (trio)
Item no.: 148623
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 868152
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1191304
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Buch
Item no.: 301618
for: Oboe
Item no.: 558031
for: 3 recorders (SSA)
Item no.: 276657
for: 3 clarinets (trio)
Item no.: 281488
„Von Bach bis Piazzolla“
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Single part Alto saxophone
Item no.: 1660497
Band 3: Weihnachtslieder
Leichte Kammermusik mit Klavier
for: 2 melodic instruments (C), rhythm group (piano/keyboard, guitar, bass, percussion)
Single part 2
Item no.: 1660574
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1650240
for: Flute, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1650194
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1650188
for: Soprano saxophone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1649633
for: Piccolo, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1649593
Ten Seasonal Favorites
for: Flute ensemble
Single part Flute 1
Item no.: 578769
for: Bass clarinet
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 814247
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 141555
for: Clarinet
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 164191
for: 4 melodic instruments in C (quartet)
Part 1 in C
Item no.: 497967
for: 1–2 flutes
Item no.: 474187
for: 2 flutes (duet)
Book
Item no.: 1191522
for: 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1132291
for: Flute, piano
Book, CD
Item no.: 868107
for: Recorder
Music score
Item no.: 1193241
for: Flute, guitar
Book
Item no.: 1191491
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Treble recorder (single part)
Item no.: 664890
for: 3 flutes (trio)
Item no.: 148624
for: 4 recorders (ATTB)
Item no.: 243981
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Item no.: 333315