Mel Bay Publications

The Classical Guitarist's Gig Book is an essential collection of classic works either written or transcribed for solo guitar. Many of the pieces are frequently requested for ceremonial or formal event...

In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the parlor was a room set aside for particular functions. Before the advent of the radio, it was the place where formal presentations were staged, incl...

This book of 53 intermediate-level guitar pieces is derived from Le Secret des Muses, a two-volume collection of lute tablature by Nicolas Vallet (c. 1583 - c. 1642). Born in France, by 1614 Vallet ha...

Easy to Play Flamenco and Classical Guitar Solos is an essential song book for beginner to intermediate players learning to play flamenco and classical guitar. Featuring 23 songs, this book introduces...

This collection of 35 arrangements of early music from Medieval and Renaissance Europe presents familiar pieces like Greensleeves, Canarios, Wilson’s Wild and Kemp’s Jig, as well as pieces that you ha...

In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the parlor was a room set aside for particular functions. Before the advent of the radio, it was the place where formal presentations were staged, incl...

This collection presents 51 carefully selected examples of Renaissance and Baroque music ranging from lute and 5-course Baroque guitar works to solo and ensemble vocal pieces and fiddle tunes. Much of...

Classical Guitar Gems es una variada colección de excelente música para guitarra. Una lista de los compositores lo dice mejor: Aguado, Bach, Beethoven, Carulli, Coste, Ruben Delgado, Emilia Giuliani,...

This second volume of The Classical Guitarist's Gig Book contains 63 intermediate to advanced solo arrangements of pieces in various styles. From "The Water Is Wide" and Christmas and patriotic favori...

Most instrumentalists would agree with the author's introductory statement, that the six Bach cello suites are "…one of the greatest collections of solo instrumental music ever written."Many amateur c...

In the author's words, this collection of 10 modern classical guitar pieces was composed to emulate the "elusive, graceful, fragile, subtle, elegant, stealthy qualities" of cats. Inspired by a rich ta...

O'Carolan for Classical Guitar is the fourth and final volume of Guido Böger's classical guitar arrangements of the 214 compositions of the itinerant blind Irish harper, Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738)...

One might think that it would be impossible to arrange the music of Georges Bizet's opera, Carmen, for solo classic guitar, but Néstor Ausqui has done it! While the guitar is an intimate and sweet-sou...

In this book, guitarist and music historian David Grimes presents 20 'small sonatas' or sonatinas, complete with detailed performance notes and bio sketches of each of the contributing composers: Leon...

Belgian guitarist and composer Gilbert Isbin presents 50 original, short, contemplative pieces in this book and online recording. Designed for sight reading and performance by classical and fingerstyl...

We are pleased to present this collection of masterful concert arrangements that have been a major part of the Castellani Andriaccio Duo's touring and recording repertoire for decades. These arrangeme...

This collection of 30 classical guitar transcriptions of works by Christoph Graupner highlights this forgotten master’s unique contributions to Baroque music. Originally composed for cembalo (harpsich...

Written in standard notation and tablature, nearly all the pieces in The Music of Debussy for Solo Guitar were transcribed from piano scores. The book's repertoire represents different periods in the...

Rob MacKillop presents 20 classic lute transcriptions; the "greatest hits" of the Renaissance and Baroque lute repertoire arranged for pick acoustic, electric, or classical guitar. MacKillop has for m...

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart escribió a los ocho años, durante la estancia de su familia en Gran Bretaña entre 1764 y 1765, el manuscrito que ahora se conoce como El cuaderno de bocetos de Londres. Ya sean p...

We are pleased to present our arrangement of the iconic and legendary, Fandango, by Padre Antonio Soler, the genius monk of the Baroque era. This work was a mainstay of our touring repertoire for year...

El famoso virtuoso argentino de la guitarra clásica, Néstor Ausqui, presenta esta colección de diecinueve solos de guitarra inéditos. Prometiendo ser el sueño de un guitarrista intérprete, la compilac...