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: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751162
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751192
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751354
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751379
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751197
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 740047
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751173
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 742316
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751365
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751153
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751424
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751399
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751165
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751185
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751349
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751405
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751438
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751306
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751175
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751312
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751151
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751421
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 742323
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751291
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751183
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 733287
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751353
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751431
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751358
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751441
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 732300
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 733275
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 742318
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751205
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751367
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751368
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751422
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 733281
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751210
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 743272
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751166
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751296
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751299
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751352
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751381
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751401
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751406
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751407