Mel Bay Publications

A collection of intermediate level solos arranged for various instruments so that the piano parts can serve as the accompaniment for many different instruments. A number of players on like or unlike i...

A collection of standard solo flute repertoire for the developing flutist. Great for recitals, contests, or as a performance practice. The book includes piano accompaniment and the solo flute part. In...

Parlez-vous Francais? This collection of popular compositions for Flute with Piano accompaniment illustrates French musical styles at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth c...

A collection of 78 tunes containing some Civil War selections as well as many other traditional favorites. Each arrangement features harmony, style marks and guitar chords. The music is supplemented w...

This volume contains some of the most popular traditional carols, arranged for flute and guitar. Most of these duet arrangements allow as much dialogue and interplay between the two instruments as pos...

While the wooden simple-system flute is traditionally used in playing Irish music, a growing number of folk players have adopted the silver flute as a viable alternative. Here for the first time, The...

Grey Larsen, in the 150 Gems collections, has given us a most welcome follow-up to his encyclopedic volume, The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle (Mel Bay Publications, 2003) and The Esse...

Celebrate the holiday season with Mel Bay's collection of Christmas carols arranged for flute and piano. Contemporary tonal colors and harmonic progressions enhance these delightful arrangements. Caro...

The Three Spanish Dances, from Opus 12 by Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925), were originally written for piano in 1875. These were among his most popular works. Arranged here for flute and guitar, these p...

Lively Flute Tunes is a collection of 57 spirited flute solos. The selections include reels, hornpipes, jigs, sea chanteys, dance tunes and more. These flute solos are ideal for performance or just en...

Former first violinist with the groundbreaking Turtle Island String Quartet, Tracy Silverman has created a new pathway to improvisational mastery with Modal Jazz Etudes for Violin and Viola: The Frame...

Saxophonist John Coltrane was one of the most innovative, creative, and influential jazz artists of the 20th Century. Both stylistically and harmonically, he opened doors for others to follow. This bo...

Easy to Play Viola Airs and Ballads is a collection of 25 nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century folk and popular songs from England, Scotland, Ireland, and the United States.  All the songs a...

This collection features 47 traditional Celtic tunes, arranged by Renata Bratt for two Cellos with rockin' groove and chop-based accompaniments. Celtic Grooves For Two Cellos includes tunes from Irela...

Easy to Play Cello Airs and Ballads is a collection of 25 nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century folk and popular songs from England, Scotland, Ireland, and the United States.  All of the song...

Celtic Gems for Cello contains 68 of the most played and loved melodies from the Celtic tradition including 25 reels, 31 jigs, 8 slip jigs and 4 Irish hornpipes. Tunes of similar style are grouped wit...

Beautiful Airs & Ballads of the British Isles for Cello is a collection of 30 traditional Irish, Scottish, and English melodies that are particularly suited to the cello.  Traditional airs, love songs...

Today the cello is usually considered a classical instrument, but from the late 17th to early 19th centuries it was used in folk ensembles to provide low, driving rhythms for dance tunes and to render...

Mel Bay Publications, Inc. is proud to present this intriguing collection of fourteen tangos by French composers arranged for solo violin with piano accompaniment. The tango is a ballroom dance of Lat...

Brazil offers a great and luxurious musical variety, not only for its large extension of land, but also for the multiple cultural interchange established along centuries among the several peoples whic...

This fun and easy bluegrass Fiddle book and companion audio takes you from the very beginning. Starting with an introduction to the instrument, the book teaches you basic Fiddle technique such as hold...

A collection of 16 Fiddle duets ranging in difficulty from moderate to challenging for the experienced fiddler. The music has been arranged with melody and harmony for old time favorites and a few new...

Irish music is rightly popular all over the world. The haunting beauty of the slow airs and infectious foot-tapping rhythms of jigs and reels are here to be discovered in this selection of great tradi...

This big note, large print book offers 43 traditional fiddle solos in standard notation with chord symbols. Selections include: Arkansas Traveler; Back Up and Push; The Blarney Pilgrim; Beaumont Rag;...

You asked for it and you got it! More tunes to play at festivals and jams or just sittin' at home with a friend or two. 62 more tunes with both basic and advanced standard notation lines with suggeste...