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: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751422
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751368
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751367
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751358
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751353
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751210
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751205
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751187
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 743272
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 742322
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 742318
Slow Waltz
for: 3 descant recorders
Music score
Item no.: 744658
from Water Music
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759099
(March)
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 746576
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 792036
(Hungarian Folk Tune)
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Music score
Item no.: 732097
from: Autumn
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 731889
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 725355
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 731838
op. 1
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score
Item no.: 731704
from: Peasant Cantata
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 744070
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Music score
Item no.: 759168
from: Orpheus in the Underworld
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 739593
from: Symphony No. 9
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 725362
from: Rigoletto
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 758578
for: 2 flutes, strings
Single part Cello/Double bass
Item no.: 784782
for: Flute
Sheet music
Item no.: 1358037
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751401
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751394
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751393
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751381
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751380
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751371
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751366
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751363
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751356
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751352
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751300
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751299
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751296
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751166
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751156
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 742317
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 733274
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 733252
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 732301
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 731836
for: Clarinet, piano
Music score
Item no.: 727954