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: 2–4 descant recorders [violins]
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 215848
for: 5 recorders (SSATB)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 299627
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
CD
Item no.: 473354
for: 4 recorders (SAAT)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 150117
for: 2 descant recorders
Item no.: 132922
Liedsätze für Blockflötenquartett mit textierter Sopranstimme
Heft 3
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 148625
for: Alto saxophone [tenor saxophone]
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 363785
for: 1–2 flutes, piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 604899
for: Oboe, piano
Music score
Item no.: 123464
for: Flute [violin], piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 768175
for: 2 voices [2 recorders]
Music score
Item no.: 770406
for: Treble recorder, piano
Item no.: 1713632
for: Melody instrument (E-flat)
Buch
Item no.: 916111
for: 2 flutes (duet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 634941
for: 2 descant recorders
Ensemble score
Item no.: 202215
for: 3 recorders (SSA)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 418940
for: 1–2 descant recorders
Ensemble score
Item no.: 418804
for: 8 clarinets
Sheet music
Item no.: 1309297
for: 2 flutes, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1579268
for: 3 flutes (trio)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1578046
for: 3 oboes (trio)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1578045
for: Alto saxophone, piano [organ]
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1578010
for: Flute, piano [organ]
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1578002
for: 5 clarinets (quintet)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1578773
for: 2 melodic instruments (C)
Ensemble score (anthology)
Item no.: 121312
The comprehensive collection for solo, duet or group playing
(Revised new edition 2023)
for: 1–2 flutes
Ensemble score (anthology), online audio (playback)
Item no.: 1642807
for: 2 saxophones (AT)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1290329
for: 3 saxophones (SAT)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1290242
for: 2 clarinets, bass clarinet
Sheet music
Item no.: 1290224
for: Flute, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292513
for: Bass recorder, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292477
for: Treble recorder, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292451
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292447
for: Clarinet, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292427
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292391
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292390
for: Bass clarinet
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292370
for: Flute, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292345
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292335
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292306
for: Piccolo, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1291779
for: Baritone saxophone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1291766
for: Bass clarinet
Sheet music
Item no.: 1291747
for: Piccolo, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1291723
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1291718
for: Bass clarinet
Sheet music
Item no.: 1291691
for: 5 clarinets (quintet)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1291649
for: 5 saxophones
Sheet music
Item no.: 1291648