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.: 751426
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751409
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751397
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751378
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751359
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751200
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751155
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751148
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 742304
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Music score
Item no.: 722435
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Music score
Item no.: 722438
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 792042
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 755757
from: Spring, The Four Seasons, op. 8/1
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 725357
op. 12
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 782219
op. 23
for: Clarinet, orchestra
Einzelstimme Horn I/II
Item no.: 783735
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 792051
op. 1
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score
Item no.: 731706
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 792054
for: Treble recorder, strings, basso continuo
Einzelstimme Violine II [Oboe II]
Item no.: 783738
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 741161
from: Ruddigore
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 725559
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1543531
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 731852
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 731640
for: Clarinet, piano
Music score
Item no.: 727953
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751388
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751360
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751357
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751311
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751304
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751199
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751193
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751191
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751188
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751186
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751182
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751178
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751163
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751157
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751146
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751439
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751432
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751430
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751428
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751425
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 751411
(Tango)
for: 2 alto saxophones [tenor saxophones]
Music score
Item no.: 724732