Mel Bay Publications

These American melodies sound great on the flute. They also provide excellent material for developing skills in rapid tonguing, extended breath-control, and the playing of high notes. This collection...

These English, Scottish, and Welsh melodies are especially well suited to performance on the modern flute. They also provide excellent material for developing skills in rapid tonguing, extended breath...

Easy to Play Flute Solos is a lively collection of 56 well-known, favorite melodies arranged in solo form for the flutist wanting fun pieces to play. Selections include ragtime, blues, Scottish music,...

From the author of The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle comes a work for players of all melody instruments that probes deeply into the art of variation in traditional Irish dance music....

Volume I of Playing Outside the Lines is the first of a comprehensive four-part method book series offering beginning to advanced Irish traditional flute instruction for Boehm and simple system flutis...

An outstanding collection of pieces for the beginning flutist including tasteful piano accompaniment arranged within the limitations of the developing instrumentalist range, tone, phrasing and techniq...

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...

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...

This Celtic harp collection is filled with 47 all-time favorite songs of faith and inspiration. These time-honored songs are a valuable resource for many varieties of religious functions. Advanced beg...

First Lessons Folk Harp is designed for the beginner harp student who has no prior music training. In this book they will learn to read music notation, count rhythm, implement important fingering tech...

The Folk Harp Wall Chart provides an overview of important hand positions and techniques unique to the Harp. Included is a table that explains tuning relating to sharpening levers, examples of common...

Before the 1700s, Celtic music was kept alive through the long oral tradition of learning and memorizing tunes without the aid of pen and paper. This collection by Star Edwards features pieces found i...

This collection of 21 charming seasonal tunes arranged for the Solo Harp by Stephanie Claussen, proves to be an excellent addition to your gig bag. Light so Brilliant promises to keep the holiday spir...

Folk Harp for the Young Beginner is designed for beginning harpists with no prior musical experience. The book presents two new methods for reading notation built around recognizing common musical pat...

Designed to help shorten the trial-and-error period of learning a new instrument, this book presents a step-by-step guide to playing hymns and gospel tunes on the 10-hole diatonic harmonica. Written w...

One of Meg Peterson's finest books. This comprehensive text presents all of the strums and techniques needed to play back-up and melody on autoharp. Contains excellent teaching on various strum and fi...

A basic, easy-to-understand, step-by-step method about playing the harp. Extensively illustrated, this book is for musicians of all levels, requiring only an interest in learning to play the harp. The...

This book illustrates a variety of accompaniment patterns and arrangement techniques for the folk harpist. The procedure taught in this book will enable the intermediate to advanced harper to play any...