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: 3 clarinets (trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 348234
ars instrumentalis 042
for: Flute, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 377588
ars instrumentalis 013
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 108969
Flöte und Klavier
Klavierauszug mit Solostimme
for: Flute, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 467624
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 609635
for Alto Saxophone
(additionally with 2nd voice)
for: 1–2 alto saxophones
Ensemble score
Item no.: 609027
op. 50
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Item no.: 603202
Sudien und Übungen
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 607087
Solo Arrangements Of 14 Favorites With CD Accompaniment
Hal Leonard Instrumental Play-Along
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 607059
for: Recorder
Socks
Item no.: 607788
Collegium Musicum
for: Treble recorder, basso continuo
Music score
Item no.: 607748
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 607704
Seven Pieces
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 606397
Folk Songs ans Dances from Greece
for: 2 recorders (SA)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 605837
Ten Pieces For Alto Saxophone and Piano
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Buch
Item no.: 606752
Quintett für 3 Blockflöten (SAT oder Bass-Blockflöte,Großbass-Blockflöte,Subbass-Blockflöte), Schlagzeug, Violoncello (Viola da gamba)
for: 3 recorders, percussion, cello [viola da gamba]
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 606514
bearbeitet für 2 Saxophone
for: 2 alto saxophones (duet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 606280
Spielmusik nach böhmischen Motiven und Impressionen aus der Moldau-Stadt
for: Recorder, piano
Ensemble score, solo part
Item no.: 115939
cours élémentaire
for: Clarinet
Score
Item no.: 610629
Reconstructed after BWV 1055
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Oboe d'amore [oboe], string orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116742
for: Harpsichord, flute, violin, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 116705
for: 3 flutes (trio)
Item no.: 602509
from "Porgy and Bess"
The Recorder Orchestra
for: Recorder ensemble
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 587238
for: Clarinet, piano
Music score
Item no.: 587080
And Strings/Piano
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Book
Item no.: 604583
Euterpe
for: Treble recorder, harpsichord
Item no.: 601578
of the 16th and 17th century
aus Orgeltabulaturen arrangiert für vier Blockflöten oder Viole da gamba
for: 4 recorders [4 viole da gamba]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 661038
Sudien und Übungen
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 617569
for: 3 flutes (trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 601682
The Recorder Orchestra
for: Recorder ensemble
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 605049
One anonymous 'Corranto' and two pieces by Giles Farnaby from the early seventeenth century Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 604990
für Oboe solo
for: Oboe
Ensemble score
Item no.: 603334
for: 2 oboes, cor anglais
Score, Parts
Item no.: 619229
for: 8 saxophones (octet)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1252645
for: 8 saxophones (octet)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1252640
for: 8 saxophones (octet)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1252637
for: 8 saxophones (octet)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1252635
for: 8 clarinets
Sheet music
Item no.: 1252591
for: 8 clarinets
Sheet music
Item no.: 1252582
for: 8 clarinets
Sheet music
Item no.: 1252578
for: 8 saxophones (octet)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1252571
for: 8 saxophones (octet)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1252560
for: 8 saxophones (octet)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1252544
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1252521
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1252333
for: 8 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1252270
for: Clarinet, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1252243
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1252241