“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.
op. 13, Nr. 2
for: 2 oboes [clarinets]
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 4836
aus: Six Sonates Pour deux Flutes-traversieres sans Basse, op. 1
for: 2 flutes [oboes/violins]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 5385
Les Gouts réünis ou Nouveaux Concerts a l'usage de toutes les sortes d'instruments de Musique …
Paris, 1724
for: Violin [flute/oboe], basso continuo
Score, parts, audio files
Item no.: 5735
aus: "Nouvelle Méthode Théorique et Pratique Pour La Flûte"
for: 2 flutes [descant recorders, oboes]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 5487
aus den "Kinderszenen", op. 15
bearbeitet für Flöte (Oboe, Violine) und Klavier
for: Flute [oboe/violin], piano
Piano score, solo part, audio file
Item no.: 2145
American Folksong
leicht bearbeitet für zwei Instrumente in gleicher Stimmung
for: 2 melodic instruments (identically tuned)
Sheet music
Item no.: 2011
Little serenade on a well-known theme
for solo instrument in C and piano
for: Melody instrument (C), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2489
BWV 659
for: Oboe [violin], organ [piano]
Score, solo part, audio file (pdf/mp3 download)
Item no.: 1410
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.: 3435
Old Irish Air
for: Melody instrument (C), piano [keyboard/guitar]
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2573
a Violino, o Flauto solo, e Basso
for: Violin [treble recorder/flute/oboe], basso continuo
Score, parts, audio files
Item no.: 3316
for: 2 violins [descant recorders/oboes/clarinets]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 1373
aus der Orchestersuite Nr. 3, BWV 1068
for: Flute [oboe/violin], piano
Piano score, solo part, audio file
Item no.: 1026
aus: 6 Duetti, op. 2
for: 2 oboes
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 4309
aus der Operette "Gasparone"
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1748
bearbeitet für Oboe und Klavier
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2475
op. 23, Nr. 19
bearbeitet für Violine / Oboe und Klavier
for: Violin [oboe], piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2990
a Violino, o Flauto solo, e Basso
for: Violin [treble recorder/flute/oboe], basso continuo
Score, parts, audio files
Item no.: 2992
aus "V pièces pour Harmonium"
bearbeitet für Violine / Flöte / Oboe und Klavier
for: Violin [flute/oboe], piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 3415
aus "Drei Romanzen", op. 94
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1853
aus: "Petites Sonates a deux Flûtes Traversieres sans Baße", op. 13
Paris, 1726
for: 2 flutes [oboes/violins]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 4516
für drei Instrumente (Flöten, Oboen, Violinen)
for: 3 flutes [oboes/violins]
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 4894
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.: 4630
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.: 4225
zusammengestellt aus: "Vingt-deuxième Oeuvre de Mr. Boismortier ..."
for: 2 flutes [oboes/violins]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 4261
aus: "Nouvelle Méthode Théorique et Pratique Pour La Flûte"
for: 2 flutes [descant recorders, oboes]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 5203
zusammengestellt aus: "Vingt-deuxième Oeuvre de Mr. Boismortier ..."
for: 2 flutes [oboes/violins]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 4205
a Violino o flauto traverso col basse per l’organo, op. 6
Bruxelles, 1731
for: Violin [flute/oboe], basso continuo
Score, parts, audio files
Item no.: 3542
March
for: Trumpet (C) [oboe/violin], piano
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2625
for: 2 descant recorders [oboes/clarinets/violins]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 1736
aus: Primo Libro di Duo cromatici … da cantare et sonare
Venedig, 1545
for: 2 violins [recorders/flutes/oboes]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 5786
Aria
for: Melody instrument (C), piano
Piano score, solo part, audio file
Item no.: 1440
aus: Sieben charakteristische Studien für Oboe
for: Oboe
Sheet music
Item no.: 5724
op. 3, Nr. 5
für zwei Altblockflöten und Basso continuo
for: 2 treble recorders [violins/oboes], basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1999
aus: „Operum Musicorum Posthumorum, Pars Prima“
Nürnberg, 1643
for: 2 violins [recorders/oboes], basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 5461
op. 6, Nr. 3
bearbeitet für Violine (Oboe) und Klavier
for: Violin [oboe], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2437
Arioso aus "Turandot"
bearbeitet für hohes C-Instrument und Klavier
for: Violin [oboe/trumpet (C)], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2594
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: "Kurze Duetten für allerley beliebige Instrumenten ..."
Flensburg / Leipzig, 1771
for: Flute [oboe/violin], basso continuo
Sheet music
Item no.: 5477
bearbeitet für Flöte (Oboe, Violine) und Klavier
for: Flute [oboe/violin], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1939
for Solo in C and Piano (Keyboard, Guitar)
for: Melody instrument (C), piano [keyboard/guitar]
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2584
a Violino, o Flauto solo, e Basso
for: Violin [treble recorder/flute/oboe], basso continuo
Score, parts, audio files
Item no.: 3181
Die ecuadorianische Nationalhymne
for: Melody instrument (C), guitar [keyboard]
Sheet music
Item no.: 2602
aus "Drei Romanzen", op. 94
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part, audio files (pdf/mp3 download)
Item no.: 1253
detta La Bernardinia, a canto solo
for: Descant (soprano) recorder [violin/oboe/cornett], basso continuo
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1064
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part, audio file
Item no.: 1334
aus: Sieben charakteristische Studien für Oboe
for: Oboe
Sheet music
Item no.: 6033