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: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 257039
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music lesson book
Item no.: 662365
for: Saxophone
Music score
Item no.: 332425
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 693988
for: Flute
Study book
Item no.: 129825
for: Recorder
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 668166
for: Oboe, piano
Music lesson book
Item no.: 667817
Flute, Oboe, Violin or C-Melody Instruments
for: Melodic instrument in C
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 663190
for: Clarinet (B-flat)
Music lesson book, 2 playback CDs
Item no.: 672422
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 774580
for: Flute
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 634650
Trainingsprogramme für Beruf und Hobby
for: Instrument
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 155064
for: Flute [oboe]
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 770327
for: Descant recorder
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 771980
for: Descant recorder
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 770361
for: Flute [oboe]
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 770323
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 257434
for: Flute
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 1548412
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 200891
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 771942
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Book
Item no.: 769566
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 765908
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Teachers book
Item no.: 765905
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Teachers book
Item no.: 765904
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 765878
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 765418
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 550589
for: Flute
Music lesson book
Item no.: 395617
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Songbook
Item no.: 290840
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 1558550
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 482623
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music score, CD
Item no.: 1549620
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 774612
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 769011
for: Recorder
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 141561
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book, online media
Item no.: 688523
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Work book (educational book)
Item no.: 634927
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Work book (educational book)
Item no.: 771565
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 768989
for: Flute
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 777633
1 (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: Trumpet (B-flat) [clarinet/tenor saxophone]
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 563095
for: Instrument [voice]
Study book
Item no.: 103241
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 1672968
for: Saxophone
Music lesson book
Item no.: 765932
for: Melody instrument
Music lesson book
Item no.: 779324
for: Melody instrument (treble clef)
Music lesson book, online media
Item no.: 766275
for: Descant recorder
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 467658
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 456920