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: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1142813
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Book
Item no.: 1134131
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1042157
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Book
Item no.: 1133518
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Buch
Item no.: 1141267
for: Flute, guitar
Buch
Item no.: 1071472
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1327721
for: Clarinet, piano
Book
Item no.: 1102734
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Book
Item no.: 1346117
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1138855
Sudien und Übungen
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 1531221
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Clarinet, piano
Book
Item no.: 1118964
clarinet quartet (2 Bb clar, Eb alto clar (or 3d Bb clar), bass clar.)
for: 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1530973
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1042200
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1320001
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 869617
for: Flute, guitar
Book
Item no.: 1191488
In Sol Minore
for: 4 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1583302
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1140206
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score
Item no.: 1138905
for: Descant recorder
Music score
Item no.: 1350645
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Buch
Item no.: 834013
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 833812
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1139859
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1141864
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 869744
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1139961
für 2 Saxophone (ST(A)) Partitur
for: 2 saxophones
Item no.: 644193
für 4 Klarinetten (Es(B)BAltBass)
Partitur und Stimmen
for: 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1346301
Southern Music
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 924991
for: 2 saxophones
Book
Item no.: 1132567
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1140595
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1138261
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 869750
for: Flute ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1215188
for: Clarinet
Music score, CD
Item no.: 1208269
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 1104888
for: Flute, guitar
Buch + Einzelstimme(n)
Item no.: 1649884
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1132349
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1042338
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 871288
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1132241
for: 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1133361
Sonatina
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1591875
for: Descant recorder
Music score
Item no.: 1192977
Edited from the original edition
for: 2 descant recorders [flutes/oboes/violins]
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1215489
Comptines et chansons d'enfants
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music score
Item no.: 834364