Mel Bay Publications has announced the release of a multitude of books for various instruments through its new Archive Editions. Through this series, many worthy but formerly out-of-print books will again become available in a veritable Mel Bay print Renaissance.

The books have been released in an attractive generic cover with the only variation being the title and author information. To date, some 40 Archive Edition books are available. Here, with the guitar titles listed first, are the available titles:

Thirty Chorale Preludes of J.S. Bach, From the Neumeister Collection - 95362
Best of Bach for Classic Guitar - 93453
Best of Carulli for Classic guitar - 93454
Best of Country Guitar Solos - 94336
Best of Tárrega for Classic Guitar - 93434
Blues Classics for Acoustic Guitar - 95273
Carlos Barbosa-Lima: Arpeggio Studies for Guitar - 95380
Complete Book of Guitar Technique - 94845
Teaching Pieces for Classic Guitar - 94703
Complete Book of Jazz Single-String Studies - 95306
Deluxe Album of Classic Guitar Music - 93284
Deluxe Anthology of O'Carolan Music for Fingerstyle Guitar - 95266
Dobro Songbook - 94077
Flatpicking Guitar Songbook - 93683
Guitar Music of the 16th Century - 95375
Irish, Scottish, & Border Melodies for Flatpicking Guitar - 95200
Melodies of Spain for Acoustic Guitar - 95055
Music from the British Isles for Acoustic Guitar - 94742
Rock Bass Technique - 94332

The non-guitar related titles are:

A Snare Drum Primer - 93402
Anyone Can Improvise - 94160
Baroque Recorder Music - 93436
Easy Piano Solos for Worship - 94227
Easy Solos for Beginning Saxophone, Level 1 - 94719
Famous Melodies for Recorder - 93717
Favorite Hymns for Piano Solo - 93421
Favorite Student Flute Classics - 93441
Folk Melodies for Recorder - 93718
Fun with Strums, Mandolin - 93357
Fun with the Piano - 93343
Great Literature for Piano, Book 2 (Elementary) - 94865
Great Literature for Piano, Book 3 Intermediate - 94866
Great Literature for Piano, Book 4 (Difficult) - 94867
Ragtime Banjo for Tenor or Plectrum Banjo - 93365
River Boat Banjo for Tenor or Plectrum Banjo - 93312
Student Piano Classics-Beethoven - 93429
Student Piano Classics: Mozart - 93427
Technical Studies for Beginning Cello, Level 1 - 94599
Ten Waltzes by Johann Strauss, Jr. for Solo Piano - 95219

Further listing of Mel Bay's Archive Editions can be found at: http://www.melbay.com/archive.asp.

A brand-new list of approximately 20 additional titles will be posted shortly, so visit the page frequently and watch for the reappearance of your favorite out-of-print Mel Bay book!

Stephen Rekas

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