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: Flute, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 306076
for: Oboe
Item no.: 306085
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 306137
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 306186
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 306176
for: Clarinet
Score
Item no.: 852748
for: 3 recorders
Score, Parts
Item no.: 472159
for: Oboe, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 298184
for: Flute, piano
Item no.: 265957
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 155178
for: Flute
Item no.: 145639
for: Clarinet
Item no.: 365878
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 968963
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 968946
for: Baritone saxophone
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 968855
for: Oboe [saxophone]
Item no.: 456707
for: 2 descant recorders
Ensemble score
Item no.: 296033
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 198189
for: Flute, piano
Book
Item no.: 179540
for: 2 soprano recorders; guitar ad lib.
Item no.: 195165
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat)
Music score
Item no.: 1161626
for: Flute, piano
Score
Item no.: 889635
for: Flute
Score
Item no.: 885665
for: Flute
Score
Item no.: 181310
for: Flute
Score
Item no.: 169097
for: Flute, guitar
Score
Item no.: 412575
for: Flute, piano
Score
Item no.: 411038
for: Clarinet
Score
Item no.: 883294
for: Flute
Score
Item no.: 870263
for: Bassoon, piano
Score
Item no.: 345949
for: Bassoon, piano
Score
Item no.: 329664
for: Flute, piano
Score
Item no.: 862454
for: Saxophone
Score
Item no.: 260541
for: Oboe, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 258887
for: Flute, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 263092
for: Saxophone
Score
Item no.: 923141
for: Descant recorder
Item no.: 367068
for: Oboe, piano
Score
Item no.: 366840
for: Clarinet
Score
Item no.: 1530626
for: Clarinet
Score, CD
Item no.: 868661
for: Oboe
Score
Item no.: 820812
for: Oboe
Score
Item no.: 412337
for: Oboe
Score, CD
Item no.: 862265
for: Oboe
Score
Item no.: 853583
for: Oboe
Score
Item no.: 877648
for: Flute, piano
Score
Item no.: 822281
for: Flute, piano
Score
Item no.: 552187