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: Trumpet (B-flat) [clarinet], piano [organ]
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2514
for: 2 trombones [bassoons]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 2501
for: Trumpet (B-flat) [clarinet], piano
Piano score, solo part, audio files (pdf/mp3 download)
Item no.: 2498
for: 5 clarinets (quintet)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1234151
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1234123
for: 3 flutes (trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 101022
for: Piano [guitar/keyboard]; voice [melody instrument in C]
Music book, 2 CDs
Item no.: 662994
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1566637
for: 2 descant recorders
Ensemble score (anthology), online audio (playback)
Item no.: 1012580
for: 2 descant recorders
Ensemble score
Item no.: 618724
for: 1–2 treble recorders
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 771123
for: 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 765247
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part, online audio (playback)
Item no.: 777533
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, guitar
Ensemble score
Item no.: 419284
for: 4 clarinets
Ensemble score
Item no.: 486558
for: 1–2 flutes
Ensemble score
Item no.: 212574
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751437
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751434
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751417
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751398
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751362
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751351
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751213
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751208
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751207
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751206
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751198
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 742320
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 733284
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 733277
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 731807
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751176
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 742302
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 733255
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 878132
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Piano score, solo part, playback-CD
Item no.: 466247
for: Treble recorder, basso continuo
Piano score, solo part, playback-CD
Item no.: 460722
for: 2 descant recorders
Ensemble score
Item no.: 102695
for: 2 saxophones
Item no.: 432685
for: Panpipe
Music score, 2 Playback-CDs
Item no.: 619174
for: Flute, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 123465
Zeitschrift für Spielmusik
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 144505
for: 2 clarinets
Ensemble score
Item no.: 408346
for: 2 melodic instruments
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1357134
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 152100
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 418079
for: 2-3 descant recorders [tenor recorders]
Ensemble score (anthology)
Item no.: 664213
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751284