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.: 770397
for: Flute, piano
Music lesson book, online media
Item no.: 673336
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 691720
Improve Your Scales!
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book
Item no.: 683204
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Fingering chart (with instrument info)
Item no.: 662281
for: Clarinet (B-flat) [trumpet/saxophone]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 111036
for: Melody instrument (treble clef)
Music lesson book
Item no.: 616284
for: Descant recorder
Music lesson book
Item no.: 195339
for: Recorder
Poster
Item no.: 431400
for: Descant recorder
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 1689724
for: Recorder
Music lesson book, online playback
Item no.: 1209638
for: Descant recorder
Music lesson book, 3 CDs
Item no.: 583776
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 765349
for: Flute
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 173905
for: Descant recorder
Music lesson book
Item no.: 635561
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book (anthology)
Item no.: 275298
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 166548
Pour les classes de 3ème cycle
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 923066
for: Flute
Fingering chart
Item no.: 482584
for: Melody instrument
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 817034
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat)
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 796153
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 769559
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 660883
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat)
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 616651
for: Oboe
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 586149
for: Winds class [alto saxophone (E-flat)]
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 473230
(Technique)
for: Flute
Item no.: 129348
for: Oboe
Music lesson book
Item no.: 284383
for: Oboe
Music lesson book
Item no.: 187338
for: Flute
Music lesson book
Item no.: 131124
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 122936
Schule für Sopran-Blockflöte
Band 2 (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: Descant recorder
Music lesson book
Item no.: 201933
for: Treble recorder
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 175454
for: Flute; piano ad lib.
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 646140
for: Treble recorder [tenor recorder]; piano ad lib.
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 657762
for: Treble recorder [tenor recorder]; piano ad lib.
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 499385
for: Saxophone
Music lesson book
Item no.: 300493
for: Winds class [oboe]
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 636769
for: Winds class [alto saxophone (E-flat)]
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 636186
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 482621
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 482620
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book
Item no.: 283152
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book
Item no.: 223610
for: Saxophone
Music lesson book
Item no.: 768764
for: Melody instrument (C) [guitar/piano/keyboard]
Music score, CD
Item no.: 428477
for: Treble recorder
Music lesson book
Item no.: 108014
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat)
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 634346
for: Recorder
Music score
Item no.: 212427