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: Recorder
Music lesson book
Item no.: 619108
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 473879
for: Descant recorder
Music lesson book
Item no.: 159354
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 349617
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Teachers book
Item no.: 765897
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Teachers book
Item no.: 765894
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 765883
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 765859
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1013699
for: Saxophone
Music lesson book
Item no.: 766036
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book (spiral binding)
Item no.: 397237
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book
Item no.: 107063
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 470103
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 769536
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 774246
for: Recorder [keyboard/guitar]
Songbook (melody, lyrics, chords)
Item no.: 774614
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1010371
for: Recorder [keyboard/guitar]
Songbook (melody, lyrics, chords)
Item no.: 774627
for: Recorder [keyboard/guitar]
Songbook (melody, lyrics, chords)
Item no.: 560014
for: Treble recorder
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 770364
for: Alto saxophone [baritone saxophone]
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 770357
for: Tenor saxophone [soprano saxophone]
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 770328
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 552957
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 257226
for: Recorder
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 767164
for: Flute
Music lesson book
Item no.: 324101
for: Melody instrument (E-flat)
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 663183
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Study book
Item no.: 833764
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 565708
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Study book
Item no.: 1556267
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 766486
for: Melody instrument
Music score
Item no.: 973099
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Work book (educational book)
Item no.: 550680
for: Saxophone
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 459598
for: Tenor saxophone [soprano saxophone]
Music lesson book, 2 playback CDs
Item no.: 482107
for: Descant recorder
Music lesson book
Item no.: 477035
for: Recorder
Music score
Item no.: 604916
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book, online playback
Item no.: 1027052
for: Flute
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 861323
for: Treble recorder
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1011002
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 343624
for: Treble recorder
Music lesson book
Item no.: 432037
for: 2 descant recorders
Music lesson book
Item no.: 347970
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book
Item no.: 324074
for: Saxophone
Music lesson book, online playback
Item no.: 217273
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 215702
for: Flute; piano ad lib.
Music lesson book, 2 CDs, DVD
Item no.: 579335
for: Saxophone
Music score, CD
Item no.: 494650