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: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score
Item no.: 162045
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part, online audio (playback)
Item no.: 1653372
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 833283
for: Flute, guitar
Score
Item no.: 832995
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 977396
for: Clarinet, orchestra
Single part clarinet solo
Item no.: 274074
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 339743
for: Oboe [flute], string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 672612
for: 4 recorders (quartet)
Score
Item no.: 365154
for: 4 recorders (quartet)
Score
Item no.: 362925
for: 4 recorders (quartet)
Score
Item no.: 362923
for: Recorder orchestra
Score
Item no.: 781077
for: 2 bass instruments
Score
Item no.: 780483
for: 3 recorders
Score
Item no.: 779482
for: Recorder
Score
Item no.: 279155
for: Recorder
Score
Item no.: 302431
for: Flute
Score
Item no.: 306050
for: Flute
Score
Item no.: 306049
for: Oboe
Score
Item no.: 254747
for: Flute
Score
Item no.: 254615
for: Clarinet
Score
Item no.: 254331
for: Flute, organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 637009
for: Oboe, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 382495
for: Flute, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 382450
for: Flute, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1544612
for: Flute, strings, vibraphone
Score
Item no.: 1555722
for: Bassoon, piano
Score
Item no.: 1139801
for: Clarinet, piano
Score
Item no.: 1139050
for: Saxophone ensemble
Score
Item no.: 1137642
for: Clarinet, piano
Ensemble score, solo part
Item no.: 1535001
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score
Item no.: 926620
for: Flute
Score
Item no.: 1624394
for: Alto saxophone, concert band
Score
Item no.: 1622693
for: Oboe, concert band
Score
Item no.: 1170054
for: 2 oboes, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1016993
for: 2 saxophones
Score
Item no.: 884099
for: 2 clarinets
Ensemble score
Item no.: 996060
for: Flute, orchestra
Stimmensatz
Item no.: 213197
for: 4 recorders (quartet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 413797
for: 4 flutes (quartet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 557491
Five Pieces
for: Alto saxophone, organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 1656994
for: Flute
Item no.: 413108
Eine umfassende Orchester Methode
for: Winds class [clarinet (B-flat)]
Single part (educational)
Item no.: 111258
for: Descant recorder
Item no.: 354084
for: Treble recorder, piano
Item no.: 354550
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Item no.: 354175
for: Descant recorder
Item no.: 354169
for: Clarinet, piano
Item no.: 200878