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: Tin whistle
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1702346
for: Flexible ensemble (2 melodic instruments (C/B-flat), cello [double bass/bassoon], piano; percussion ad lib.)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 313732
for: Clarinet
CD
Item no.: 1165295
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 129317
A fresh approach
Schott Sight-Reading Series
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book
Item no.: 444950
for: Saxophone
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 552054
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 552780
for Advanced Pupils (Original version)
Universal Fagott Edition
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 113741
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 777908
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 443309
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 272635
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book
Item no.: 388966
for ALL Instrumentalists & vocalists (lyrics included)
Play Along Book & Recording Set
for: Melody instrument (C/B-flat/E-flat); voice ad lib.
Music score, 2 Playback-CDs
Item no.: 100283
for: 3 clarinets (trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1585993
The Best Step-by-Step Guide to Start Learning
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 1690553
Grade 4
for: Oboe, piano
Book, CD
Item no.: 628656
Aural Training In Practice
for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book, 3 CDs
Item no.: 776593
for: Flute
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1634154
for: Flute, piano
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 604520
for: Saxophone
Music score
Item no.: 297884
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 556146
for: Oboe
Score
Item no.: 267094
for: Saxophone ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 819427
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1340889
for: Flute
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 576445
for: Descant recorder
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1212427
for: Tin whistle
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 1215456
Fifteen chart hits from the Nineties in easy melody line arrangements for Clarinet
Junior Guest Spot
for: Clarinet
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 395065
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score
Item no.: 1198728
for: Saxophone
Book, CD, DVD
Item no.: 960813
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1165440
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 1165412
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 1165403
for: Instrument [voice]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 681360
for: Flute ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 363215
for: Saxophone
Music score
Item no.: 240304
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 219034
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 192754
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 238984
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 315837
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 145278
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part, playback-CD
Item no.: 470793
Applying melodic contrasts to diatonic phrases,
for C, B, Eb treble clef instruments, transposed changes included
for: Melody instrument (C/B-flat/E-flat)
Music lesson book
Item no.: 468709
The Chester Woodwind Series
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 669732
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat) [horn]
Sheet music, DVD
Item no.: 656206
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 326892
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat) [horn]
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 657694
for: 1–2 clarinets
Ensemble score (anthology), online audio (playback)
Item no.: 658400