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.
aus: 22 Etüden für die Clarinette
for: Clarinet
Sheet music
Item no.: 4838
aus: 26 kleine Capricen für die Flöte, op. 37
for: Flute
Sheet music
Item no.: 3569
aus der französischen Suite Nr. 6, BWV 817
bearbeitet für Alt- und Bassblockflöte
for: Treble recorder, bass recorder
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 4246
from: Forty Favorite Scotch Airs, adapted for a Violin, German Flute or Violoncello
London, 1789
for: Violin [flute, cello], basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 5813
bearbeitet für 2 Blockflöten
for: 2 recorders (SA)
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 3895
American Folksong
leicht bearbeitet für zwei Instrumente in gleicher Stimmung
for: 2 melodic instruments (identically tuned)
Sheet music
Item no.: 2011
from: Forty Favorite Scotch Airs, adapted for a Violin, German Flute or Violoncello
London, 1789
for: Violin [flute, cello], basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 5792
aus "Der Fluyten Lust-Hof"
for: Descant recorder
Sheet music
Item no.: 1825
Nr. 14 aus: 18 Etüden, op. 12
for: Oboe
Sheet music
Item no.: 4124
aus: 48 Übungen, op. 31
for: Oboe
Sheet music
Item no.: 4775
aus: "Neueste practische und vollständige Methode des Flötenspiels" op. 205
for: 2 flutes (duet)
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 4880
Song, arranged for 2 trumpets / clarinets / saxophones
from "Method for the Cornet"
for: 2 trumpets [flugelhorns/tenorhorns/trombones (treble clef)/clarinets/saxophones]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 3590
aus "30 Etüden", op. 107
für Flöte solo
for: Flute
Sheet music
Item no.: 3642
aus "Practische Anleitung zur Erlernung des Flötenspiels"
for: 2 flutes (duet)
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 1075
aus: "Kurze Duetten für allerley beliebige Instrumenten ..."
Flensburg / Leipzig, 1771
for: Flute [oboe/violin], basso continuo
Sheet music
Item no.: 5477
from: Forty Favorite Scotch Airs, adapted for a Violin, German Flute or Violoncello
London, 1789
for: Violin [flute, cello], basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 6047
aus: "Trois Romances Sans Paroles", op. 90
eingerichtet für Fagott
for: Bassoon
Sheet music
Item no.: 2319
aus: Der getreue Musikmeister
transponierte Ausgabe für Altblockflöte
for: Treble recorder, basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 2880
aus: Sieben charakteristische Studien für Oboe
for: Oboe
Sheet music
Item no.: 5724
aus: Zehn Duos für zwei Saxophone
for: 2 saxophones (identically tuned)
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 5103
für zwei Flöten
for: 2 flutes (duet)
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 3969
aus der "Methode pour la Flûte" (1827)
for: Flute
Sheet music
Item no.: 4214
aus: "Instrucktive Duetten"
Ausgabe für zwei Saxophone
for: 2 saxophones (AT)
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 3977
aus: Sieben charakteristische Studien für Oboe
for: Oboe
Sheet music
Item no.: 6033
aus: Sieben charakteristische Studien für Oboe
for: Oboe
Sheet music
Item no.: 6303
aus "Der Fluyten Lust-Hof"
for: Descant recorder
Sheet music
Item no.: 1121
aus: „Nouvelle Méthode Théorique et Pratique Pour La Flûte“
transponierte Ausgabe für Altblockflöten
for: 2 treble recorders (duet)
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 6117
aus der Oper "Der Freischütz"
Bearbeitung für zwei Flöten (Oboen, Klarinetten, Violinen)
for: 2 flutes [oboes/clarinets/violins]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 2122
aus: „Nouvelle Méthode Théorique et Pratique Pour La Flûte“
for: 2 flutes (duet)
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 6119
aus: Nouvelle Méthode De Flute
for: 2 flutes [oboes/clarinets/violins]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 3500
aus "Der Fluyten Lust-Hof"
for: Descant recorder
Sheet music
Item no.: 2968
aus: "Kurze Duetten für allerley beliebige Instrumenten ..."
Flensburg / Leipzig, 1771
for: Flute [oboe/violin], basso continuo
Sheet music
Item no.: 5635
aus: "Kurze Duetten für allerley beliebige Instrumenten ..."
Flensburg / Leipzig, 1771
for: Flute [oboe/violin], basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 6012
aus: Arie, e correnti a tre, due violini e violone, op. 12
Bologna 1678, Nachdruck London 1705, 1720
for: 2 violins [flutes], basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 6179
aus "Der Fluyten Lust-Hof"
for: Descant recorder
Sheet music
Item no.: 1457
aus der Fagott-Schule
for: Bassoon
Sheet music
Item no.: 4452
aus dem "Album für die Jugend", op. 68
for: 2 flutes [oboes/violins]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 2323
Irish Folksong
for: 2 melodic instruments
Sheet music
Item no.: 2620
aus "20 Duette für zwei Violinen", op. 55 (Nr. 16)
eingerichtet für zwei Klarinetten
for: 2 clarinets
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 3215
from: 40 Favorite Scotch Airs, adapted for a Violin, German Flute or Violoncello
London, 1789
for: 2 violins [flutes]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 5406
aus: 18 Etüden, op. 12 (Nr. 16)
for: Oboe
Sheet music
Item no.: 4949
for: 1–2 descant recorders, guitar; voice ad lib.
Sheet music
Item no.: 1684
from: Vingtquatre Exercices pour la Clarinette ... seconde Partie de la Methode
Mainz, Paris, Anvers 1828
for: Clarinet
Sheet music
Item no.: 6140
aus: 10 Capricci, op. 9
for: Clarinet
Sheet music
Item no.: 5628
Based on Traditional Gospels
for: 2 violins [clarinets]
Sheet music
Item no.: 2042
per il Flauto Traverso senza Basso
for: Flute
Sheet music
Item no.: 3507
für zwei Violinen oder Klarinetten
for: 2 violins [clarinets]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 3967
Thema mit Variation; aus dem Finale der Sinfonie Nr. 9
for: 2 clarinets
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 4371