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
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 1024921
for: Saxophone
Book, CD
Item no.: 960889
for: Flute; basso continuo ad lib.
Music score
Item no.: 200250
for: Instrument
Music score
Item no.: 310958
for: Oboe
Music lesson book
Item no.: 182422
for: Melody instrument (C/B-flat/E-flat)
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 244911
for: Instrument [voice]
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 681777
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 444129
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1165096
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 118984
from the 14th - 18th centuries
for: 3 treble recorders
Ensemble score (anthology)
Item no.: 327477
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 198334
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music lesson book
Item no.: 403492
Learn to play bass recorder in ensemble
3-5 part recorder ensemble pieces
for: Bass recorder [3-5 Recorder (SAATB)]
Score, Single part, Playback-CD
Item no.: 195088
for: Clarinet
Music score, CD
Item no.: 370845
for all saxophones
for: Saxophone
Music lesson book
Item no.: 395596
Learn to play bass recorder in ensemble
3-5 part recorder ensemble pieces
for: Bass recorder [3-5 Recorder (SAATB)]
Score, Single part, Playback-CD
Item no.: 185560
for: Clarinet
Fingering chart
Item no.: 618857
for: Alto saxophone; piano ad lib.
Piano score, solo part, online audio (playback)
Item no.: 659329
for: Melody instrument (C/B-flat/E-flat)
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1543899
for: Flute
Music lesson book, online playback
Item no.: 1017052
Exercises For Advancing Players
for: Treble recorder
Music score
Item no.: 663968
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat)
Music lesson book, online playback
Item no.: 774924
for: Descant recorder
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 659800
for: Saxophone
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 100371
De Mecanisme Flute (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: Flute
Music lesson book
Item no.: 100761
for flute (Audio Access included)
Look, Listen & Learn
for: Flute
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 682618
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 765957
for: 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 499329
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Set of parts
Item no.: 857495
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 460850
for: Saxophone
Music lesson book
Item no.: 403563
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 239003
for: Clarinet (B-flat)
Music lesson book
Item no.: 635778
for: Bassoon, piano
Score
Item no.: 184952
for: Melody instrument (C) [guitar/piano/keyboard]
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 211123
for: Tenor saxophone; piano ad lib.
Piano score, solo part, playback-CD
Item no.: 649921
Minor Edition
for: Oboe
Music lesson book
Item no.: 680859
for: Melody instrument (E-flat)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 159243
for: Clarinet, piano
Book, CD
Item no.: 605882
for: Flute
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 137252
for: Recorder
Music score
Item no.: 400458
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 369256
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part, playback-CD (anthology)
Item no.: 583300
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 138631
for: Alto saxophone [tenor saxophone]
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 134532
for: Flute
Music score (spiral binding), online playback
Item no.: 642614
from 2018
ABRSM 6 - 8
for: Oboe
Music lesson book
Item no.: 669157