Mel Bay Publications

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...

This unique collection celebrates the contemporary fiddle music of northeast Ireland, much of it for the first time in print. Not surprisingly, given its location and long history of traditional music...

Beautiful Airs & Ballads of the British Isles' is a collection of 29 traditional Irish, Scottish and English melodies that are particularly suited to being played on the fiddle. Traditional fiddle air...

Early Music Gems contains 49 tunes dating from 1300-1791, including Medieval, Renaissance, and ancient melodies as well as a 'best of' John Playford's The Dancing Master. These delightful melodies are...

This meticulously researched anthology presents detailed biographies and transcriptions, including bowing, ornamentation, and accentuation of 39 fiddle tunes as played by 25 Newfoundland fiddlers from...

En passant par le fjord: Fiddle Music from the Saguenay River to Lake St. John es una colección de 28 melodías y técnicas tradicionales de violín de Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, en Quebec. Escrito por la...

Noche tras noche, Charles "Pa" Ingalls levantaba su violín y llenaba su cabaña de música mientras la familia se reunía para escuchar, cantar y bailar. La música era el latido de su hogar y les levanta...

A critically acclaimed book covering old-time, bluegrass, Irish, blues, Scandinavian, Cajun, Texas, swing and jazz, and twin fiddling styles. This book also covers bowing, chords, chord progressions,...

Mel Bay's Complete Fiddling Book is a compilation of arrangements of traditional tunes by several outstanding practitioners of the art of Fiddle playing: Craig Duncan, Bill Guest, Dave Reiner, Frank Z...

Known as 'The Bible of Irish Music,  Mel Bay's facsimile edition contains the original 1903 collection of 1, 850 melodies consisting of airs, jigs, reels, hornpipes, long songs, and marches for fiddl...

This affordable 'Qwikguide' contains 43 traditional fiddle solos in standard notation with chord symbols. Songs include: Arkansas Traveler, Back Up and Push, The Blarney Pilgrim, Beaumont Rag, Bill Ch...

Philip John Berthoud's Irish Fiddle Playing has been carefully designed to make the personal aspects of traditional Irish fiddle playing, improvisation and interpretation, accessible to novice players...

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

A collection of 120 melodies meticulously transcribed from recordings by the masters of the klezmer style, including Dave Tarras, Naftule Brandwine, Abe Schwartz and many more. Written in standard not...

Hymns Made Easy for Viola is a collection of favorite traditional hymns with guitar accompaniment, suitable for church, teaching or recreational settings. The material includes viola parts and bowing...

Hymns Made Easy for Cello is a collection of favorite traditional hymns with guitar accompaniment, suitable for church, teaching or recreational settings. The material includes cello parts and bowing...

100 Gospel Songs and Hymns for Cello and Guitar is a comprehensive collection of all-time favorite gospel hymns arranged for cello solo with suggested written chordal accompaniment. Fingerstyle guitar...

Hymns of Early America for Flute presenta un retrato patchwork de la música sacra tradicional de los inicios de la República. Trece melodías representan a diversos pueblos y tradiciones musicales, des...

100 Hymns for Flute and Guitar is a collection of all-time favorite hymns arranged for flute solo with suggested written chordal accompaniment. Fingerstyle guitar and strum styles are indicated on eac...

Through the centuries, the Christmas season has inspired composers, poets, lyricists and hymn writers to apply their craft in devotion to this event. This book presents 100 arrangements of favorite Ch...

A comprehensive 96-page large print/big note perfect-bound book of over ninety all time favorite flute tunes. Includes folk songs, sea chanties, gospel songs, spirituals, hymns, patriotic songs and mo...

You need only minimal playing skills and three chords; G, C and D7 to accompany the beautiful songs of faith in this innovative book. If you are a beginning or 'casual' player on a chording instrument...

The ten-hymn selection (including among others Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing and How Firm a Foundation) largely avoids chordal style harmonization, but rather employs the open strings of the inst...