Mel Bay Publications

Guillermo Diego's Album Pieces for Solo Guitar Volume I, embody a collection of original works conceived by this recognized Mexican composer for classical guitar. These pieces have being written with...

This collection of the work of the Maltese composer, Gordon Mizzi, for solo guitar is being made available to the public for the first time. Song of the Sea, The Music of Gordon Mizzi, Volume One is t...

During the course of my teaching piano and guitar, I have not come across another book that took these classic masterpieces and arranged them for the beginner guitar student. There is an amazing amoun...

This collection of the work of the Maltese composer, Gordon Mizzi, for solo guitar is being made available to the public for the first time. Saints and Fireworks, The Music of Gordon Mizzi Volume Two...

Florian Larousse is part of a rising crop of young French classical guitar virtuosos bound for stardom. Like his colleague Gabriel Bianco, Mr. Larousse is a product of Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris...

The Romance Anonimo ('Anonymous Romance') is one of the most popular pieces in the classical guitar repertoire. Also known as Spanish Romance, Romance de Amor, Jeux interdits and Estudio de Rubira, th...

Nestor Ausqui hails from the picturesque Argentinian city of Santa Fe: a robust and vibrant city catering to the arts and culture, most notably music. Definitive de Falla is Ausqui's second book from...

The much anticipated 5th French Suite by J. S. Bach has finally been published in its entirety for classical guitar by internationally acclaimed Argentinian virtuoso Nestor Ausqui. This sui generis co...

This volume is the first in a new series of guitar transcriptions by John Kiefer. Beginning Baroque for Guitar features simplified arrangements of Baroque music. The pieces are primarily monodic and c...

Francisco Tarrega (1852 - 1909) and Ferdinando Carulli (1770 - 1841) were two of the foundational classical guitar composers. Their works are studied and to this day performed by guitarists worldwide....

The Valses Poeticos were composed for solo piano around 1886-1887 by Enrique Granados after moving from Barcelona to Paris to study with Charles-Wilfrid de Beriot and Felip Pedrell. This book present...

This collection features transcriptions of pieces by renowned Spanish composers arranged with non-conventional guitar fingerings. Each piece demonstrates Lily Afshar's musicality and sense of touch, e...

Born in the Italian city of Naples, Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) was one of the few Baroque composers to transition into the Classical period. Scarlatti composed operas, cantatas, symphonia...

Introspect is a collection of solo classic Guitar pieces including a series of ten short waltzes and six longer compositions of intermediate difficulty. Although written in the 21st century, they enco...

Contemporary Guitar Composers of the Americas is a unique collection of 51 solo works representing 17 composers from the American continent. This anthology addresses continental Guitar music; music fr...

The 23 original compositions in this book offer a fresh basis to explore and develop plectrum or pick-style playing technique to a professional level.

Johann Sebastian Bach most likely composed the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue during his stay in Kothen between 1717 and 1723. Originally written for the harpsichord, the work was duly recognized as a m...

Classical and Flamenco Guitar Solos and Etudes provides an introduction to classical and flamenco guitar techniques through 22 pieces. These short, melodic studies will increase your understanding of...

Classically trained jazz guitarist Diego Barber presents five well-developed themes and a 3-movement solo sonata transcribed from his outstanding commercial CD recordings: Calima, One Minute Later, Ta...

Renaissance Lute Repertoire-Guitar 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-centur...

Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687 1750) is known to guitarists as the greatest baroque composer for the lute, yet most are only familiar with the earlier portion of Weiss's prolific output found in the Brit...

Designed with easy, intermediate, and more challenging parts, this mix of traditional, classical, and original melodies arranged for guitar trio is ideal for a classroom of students at various playing...

This publication presents a lightly modernized, fully corrected, reliable edition of Francisco T rrega?s more idiomatic transcriptions and arrangements for the classic guitar. T rrega, who was also an...

In this book, Dr. Lily Afshar has clearly laid out the music and fingerings for 48 beginning to intermediate-level pieces by Aguado, Bach, Carcassi, Milan, Mertz, Sor and other Renaissance through nin...

Intermediate-level guitarists will enjoy playing through this varied collection of pieces, all in one volume. A wide gamut of composers from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century is included, alon...