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.
12 Great Movie Themes complete with backing tracks
for: Flute
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 648570
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Book, CD
Item no.: 628702
for: 3 flutes (trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 339235
for: 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 217784
for: Saxophone
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 241297
for: Clarinet
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 615430
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 364269
for: Melody instrument (C/B-flat/E-flat)
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 208849
for: Melody instrument
Music lesson book
Item no.: 205436
for: 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 433907
for: 2 voices [violins/ recorders]
Score
Item no.: 662712
with suggested ornamentation and phrasing
for: Tin whistle
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 828190
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 1532823
for: Oboe
Buch + CD
Item no.: 562557
Ten great etudes for playing and improvising on the blues
for Flute
for: Flute
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 676402
for: Violin [flute], piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 638080
for: Tenor saxophone [soprano saxophone], piano
Music score
Item no.: 499181
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 658022
for: Clarinet (C/B-flat), piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 613108
for: Instrument in C (high and low), B-flat or E-flat (flute /violin /clarinet /saxophone /trumpet /horn /trombone /guitar /keyboard /piano /bass)
Music lesson book
Item no.: 337929
for: Clarinet
Music score, CD
Item no.: 1148419
for: 4 clarinets
Score, set of parts (anthology)
Item no.: 141186
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 689925
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat)
Buch + CD
Item no.: 494030
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 460862
Basics of Clarinet Technique in 100 Studies
Essential Exercises
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book
Item no.: 553348
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat)
Buch + CD
Item no.: 458480
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 263720
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 466568
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat)
Buch + CD
Item no.: 559499
for: Flute
Music lesson book
Item no.: 172625
for: Clarinet
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 341341
for: Saxophone
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 338798
for: Flute, piano
Item no.: 332012
for: Recorder
Music score
Item no.: 490247
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 461992
for: Clarinet
Music score, CD
Item no.: 471711
for: Instrument in C (high and low), B-flat or E-flat (flute /violin /clarinet /saxophone /trumpet /horn /trombone /guitar /keyboard /piano /bass)
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 479142
for: Instrument
Music lesson book
Item no.: 465083
for: Descant recorder
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 273992
for: 4 flutes (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 194630
with an optional 3rd part
for: 2 treble recorders (duet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 124009
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 107123
for: Descant recorder
Music score
Item no.: 483985
for: Descant recorder
Music score
Item no.: 198239
for: Melody instrument (C/B-flat/E-flat/C low); rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 585706
for: Flute
Music lesson book
Item no.: 911127
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 433454