“I mean, if you never tried playing an oboe, how do you know you’re not the most talented oboe player ever?” Steven Soderbergh, Film Director
One of the older members of the woodwind family, the oboe is generally made from African blackwood, has a conical bore, and uses a double-reed. Whether you are looking to Learn to Play Oboe, or you are after Concert Repertoire for Oboe, or you are looking to have some fun with some Film Music for Oboe, have a look through our sheet music, tuition books and scores, we are sure you will find something that inspires you.
The successor of the Middle-Eastern Shawm, a loud, brash ’out-door’ instrument with a larger double-reed, which dates back to the first few centuries A.D, the oboe first entered the European music scene in the mid-seventeenth century. It continued to evolve, adding more keys and changing the fingering systems, until the end of the nineteenth century, when two main types of oboe emerged, the Viennese oboe and the French oboe.
The Viennese oboe is slightly wider than the French, it uses a smaller, wider reed, and has a less complex key system. These two oboes were both popular into the twentieth century, but it has been suggested that it was the open support of Richard Strauss that put the French oboe ahead of the Viennese, and it is the French oboe, which uses the Gillet key system, which is the basis for the modern oboes we use today.
aus: "Erster Theil zweystimmiger Sonaten und Suiten"
Hamburg, 1674
for: 2 flutes [oboes, violins], basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 4493
aus: Bergkreyen – Auff zwo Stimmen Stimmen componirt, sambt etlichen dergleichen Frankreichischen gesenglein ... Nürnberg, 1551
eingerichtet für zwei Diskant-Instrumente
for: 2 melodic instruments
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 5493
for: Oboe
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597307
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1614182
per Violino, overo Traverso Solo, col Continuo
aus: "Der Brauchbare Virtuoso ...", Hamburg 1720
for: Violin [flute/oboe], basso continuo
Score, parts, audio files
Item no.: 4252
aus "Trois Gymnopédies" (1888)
Bearbeitung für Flöte (Oboe, Violine) und Klavier
for: Flute [oboe/violin], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2120
für Violine / Flöte / Oboe und Klavier
for: Violin [flute/oboe], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2958
from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
for: Oboe, piano
Music score
Item no.: 752829
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music, Download (mp3)
Item no.: 1615327
for: 1–2 oboes, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1608146
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1600592
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1600538
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1604854
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1604516
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1601123
for: 1–2 oboes, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1600749
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1603766
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1603679
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1603629
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1603194
for: Oboe
Sheet music
Item no.: 1603097
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1604021
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music, Download (mp3)
Item no.: 1630831
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music, Download (mp3)
Item no.: 1615755
for: 1–2 oboes, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1606450
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1606361
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1606153
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1606628
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1606522
for: 1–2 oboes, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1606496
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1605906
for: 2 oboes, piano
Sheet music, Download (mp3)
Item no.: 1636688
aus "Deuxième Livre de Pièces pour la Flûte traversière, et autres Instruments, avec la basse-continue"
for: Flute [oboe/violin], basso continuo
Score, parts, audio files
Item no.: 1556
Edition Schott
for: Cor anglais, piano
Music score
Item no.: 739169
Edition Schott
for: Cor anglais, string orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 728936
for: Oboe, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1246338
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1251104
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1242503
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1240019
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1607168
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1631373
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1600065
for: Oboe, piano; bassoon ad lib.
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 1599183
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1598950
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1598917
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1602547
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243629
for: Oboe, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243554