Mel Bay Publications Sheet Music

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 is a diverse collection of excellent guitar music. A list of the composers says it best: Aguado, Bach, Beethoven, Carulli, Coste, Ruben Delgado, Emilia Giuliani, Justin Holland,...

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...

The manuscript now known as The London Sketchbook was written by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart at the age of eight during his family’s sojourn to Great Britain in 1764-1765. Whether as complete pieces or prel...

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...

Famed Argentine classical guitar virtuoso, Néstor Ausqui presents this collection of nineteen heretofore unpublished guitar solos. Promising to be a performing guitarist’s dream, the compilation spans...

The Baroque Period in music history is generally conceded to have begun circa the year 1600. Music by composers of this era contributed to the development of clearly defined types of music, such as th...

Harry Volpe was a gifted writer and arranger for guitar. Throughout his distinguished career, Harry Volpe developed an extensive library of guitar music. This master volume contains some of the best m...

Learning The Classic Guitar is a new direction in Guitar instruction. Many ideas in this book breaks new ground. Part Two should go along with part one and it presents the elements of music and proced...

Learning The Classic Guitar - Part Three teaches the student to form clear and accurate concepts of music expression. It also teaches the guitarist how to perform in public with accuracy and confidenc...

This edition contains 10 of J. S. Bach's finest compositions scored in notation and tablature. Works include: Two Part Invention in C Major: Gavotte, from the 3rd Lute Suite: Prelude in D Minor: Boure...