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, online audio
Item no.: 1634154
for: 3 clarinets (trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1585993
The Best Step-by-Step Guide to Start Learning
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 1690553
for: Descant (soprano) recorder; piano ad lib.
Music lesson book
Item no.: 181591
for: 1–2 melodic instruments (B-flat), piano [keyboard/accordion]; voice ad lib.
Songbook
Item no.: 326336
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 315837
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 971652
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 392716
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 971714
for: Flute
Score, Parts
Item no.: 218236
for: Flute
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1542233
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 296387
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 971606
for: Saxophone
Music score
Item no.: 335149
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 971672
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 219034
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 831741
for: Clarinet
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1210696
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score
Item no.: 1198728
for: 2 alto saxophones
Ensemble score
Item no.: 991610
The Chester Woodwind Series
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 669732
from Messiah
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 738381
Critical edition by Stefaan Verdegem
for: Cor anglais, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 795863
op. 9 No. 2
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 722349
for: Flute, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1612339
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1612328
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1612283
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 192754
for: Saxophone
Music score
Item no.: 169478
for: 3 flutes (trio)
Buch
Item no.: 277534
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Buch
Item no.: 242066
for: Instrument [voice]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 175467
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score, CD
Item no.: 497823
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part, playback-CD
Item no.: 470793
for: Clarinet, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1565350
for: Saxophone
Music lesson book
Item no.: 672518
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 339405
for: Saxophone
Music score
Item no.: 297884
also for tenoroon and fagonello (bassoonello)
printed and digital edition with audio
Instrumental ABC
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book, online media
Item no.: 1355939
for: Recorder, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1051402
for: Oboe
Score
Item no.: 267094
for: 5 clarinets (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1535272
for: 5 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1535271
Method for descant recorder
for: Descant recorder
Study book
Item no.: 796500
for: Treble recorder
Buch + CD
Item no.: 481945
for: Melody instrument (B-flat)
Buch
Item no.: 368814
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 180570
for: Clarinet
Music score, CD
Item no.: 1162018