Mel Bay Publications

Mel Bay proudly endorses Tom Bruner's beginning text on arranging and orchestrating music. This is a hands-on approach designed to impart essential information to the serious student!

When words fail, music speaks...so the saying goes. Expressing yourself through music by putting words to notes and notes to words can be easy; yes, easier than you may think. This book is a treasure...

Advanced Rhythmic Concepts for Improvisation offers the advancing student a method to expand their rhythmic vocabulary and explore some of the more challenging aspects of the modern jazz idiom. It put...

Many instruments in this book can be built in a half hour or less by children as young as age 5, using common household items. Songs include guitar and autoharp chords as well as dulcimer tablature. I...

Everyone has a birthday to celebrate 'now there's a special book of piano arrangements that you can use just for the occasion! This book provides unique arrangements of 'Happy Birthday  in different...

Specially created for children and beginners of all ages, this method begins with simple chords and songs, after which learners will progress on to reading single note lines on the Ukulele. Proper hol...

This collection features popular children's songs such as 'His Banner Over Me Is Love, ' 'Jesus Loves the Little Children, ' and many more! A collection for elementary and junior high students. Can be...

Play beautiful sacred music on the ukulele in just minutes reading tablature. The ukulele has a wonderful 'harp like' sound and is perfect for gospel music. This book contains easy chord patterns so y...

Veteran Mel Bay author, Phil Duncan, applies his expertise in this collection of 27 sacred and gospel favorites arranged for solo harmonica with suggested chord accompaniment. Songs of Faith will rais...

Classics for Ukulele features 20 well-known classical pieces arranged for fingerpicking solo ukulele. Tunes include: Moonlight Sonata, Ave Maria, Ride of the Valkyries, Hungarian Dance No. 4 and many...

Telemann for Mandolin presents over 70 pieces composed by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) that are particularly suitable for playing on unaccompanied mandolin. The pieces are easy to intermediate i...

Bach's cello suites are among the most famous solo instrumental works of all time. The cello and the tenor banjo share the same tuning, and banjo players might be surprised at how well this great musi...

These 12 Divertimentos were published in 1759 by the prominent Scottish composer James Oswald. These pieces were originally composed for the popular wire-strung cittern known then as the 'guittar'. Th...

From 1651 to 1728 John Playford, his son Henry, and John Young published multiple editions of the Dancing Master-collections of dance instructions and musical accompaniment. Over 500 distinct tunes we...

Marin Marais (1656-1728) was a 17th-18th century French composer and viol player for the court of Louis XIV. He is primarily known for his five books for one, two and three bass viols and continuo. Th...

These Mandolin duet arrangements of the music of J. S. Bach are drawn from several sources. Most are arrangements of Keyboard pieces from The Anna Magdalena Notebook, English and French Suites, Two-Pa...

Eighteenth century France was the center of mandolin composition in Europe, especially of mandolin music for amateurs. Jean-Baptiste Miroglio's Suites des Amusemens des Dames are typical of mandolin d...

As one of the most productive composers in history, Georg Philipp Telemann endeavored to supply a steady stream of new music for both professional and amateur musicians. The 64 compositions in this co...

Improve your bass guitar technique and musicality by studying the music of the masters. Classical Favorites for Electric Bass is a collection of solos and duets featuring the music of Bach, Beethoven,...

Learn to play great classical music tunes on the mandolin! All the most famous composers are here, such as Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi and others. The tunes form a 'greatest hits  package...

The octave mandolin is valued for its rich tone and wide range of potential use in a variety of musical settings. This book contains 27 easy to intermediate pieces from the Baroque era that have been...

Renaissance Lute Repertoire-Lute Tablature Edition can be viewed as either a supplement to the popular Introduction to the Lute: for Lute and Guitar Players or as a standalone edition of 16th-century...

Five-string banjo enthusiasts who play in the stroke, clawhammer or guitar styles will enjoy these 50 melodic, tab-only arrangements. The collection is unique in that it includes reels, polkas, jigs,...

Der spanische Gitarrenvirtuose und Komponist Francisco Tárrega (1852 - 1909) galt als einer der bedeutendsten Interpreten und einflussreichsten Gitarrenlehrer seiner Zeit. Seine Originalstücke und Tra...

Eleven solos transcribed for mandolin in notation and tablature. Includes works by Corelli, Handel, Telemann, Bach and others.