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: Saxophone
Item no.: 369939
Selected from the 2014–2017 Syllabus
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part (anthology)
Item no.: 1565313
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 889834
for: Saxophone
Music score
Item no.: 881360
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score, CD
Item no.: 620363
for: Clarinet choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 291452
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1541541
for: Clarinet
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1541489
for: Bassoon
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 370989
17 Graded Solos for Bassoon and Piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part, online audio (playback) (anthology)
Item no.: 1672461
for: 3 flutes (trio)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1672868
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Book
Item no.: 1107020
for: Oboe, piano
Book
Item no.: 1106895
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat)
Music score
Item no.: 1106855
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1106713
for: Saxophone
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1106680
for: Oboe, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 153612
for: 2 flutes (solo), violin (solo), cello (solo), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 109306
for: Harpsichord, flute, violin, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 116705
for: Clarinet, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 379410
for: Flute, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 101467
for: Flute
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 371345
for: Soprano saxophone, chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 693734
for: Recorder
Score
Item no.: 684721
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 682003
for: 4 flutes (quartet)
Score
Item no.: 681152
for: Cello [flute/clarinet], orchestra
Score
Item no.: 429931
for: Flute
Score
Item no.: 418486
for: 5 recorders (SSATB)
Score
Item no.: 417844
for: Oboe, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 420756
for: 4 recorders (quartet)
Score
Item no.: 443254
for: 4 recorders (quartet)
Score
Item no.: 443252
for: Clarinet (B-flat)
Score
Item no.: 344803
for: Flute, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 377588
for: Bass clarinet
Score
Item no.: 382643
for: Flute
Score
Item no.: 381540
for: Flute, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 630633
for: Recorder ensemble
Score
Item no.: 637633
for: 7 recorders, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 772951
for: Flute [violin], harpsichord [piano]
Score
Item no.: 768905
for: Clarinet
Score
Item no.: 297584
for: 3 treble recorders
Score
Item no.: 493582
for: 4 recorders (quartet)
Score
Item no.: 493576
for: Oboe, strings
Score
Item no.: 492989
for: Oboe, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 477271
for: Oboe, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 551848