With background notes and performance suggestions, Martin Tourish introduces musicians to the world of Celtic music. The selected pieces span three centuries of music-making in Ireland, Scotland, Wales,

Klaus Dickbauer believes that scales can be fun. His modern approach to elementary technique can be a highly effective training tool for developing improvisation skills. In the first volume, Dickbauer

Bartok took great pleasure in trnascribing the folk music of Hungary, including his two series of Romanian Christmas Carols. Twenty little tunes from various towns and villages were compiled into

Something quite a bit different from the usual Christmas program fare, Bartok's collection of Romanian Christmas Carols springs from his lifelong fascination with folk music of the region.

A concert work of decidedly Latin flavor, Cornick's Three Latin Sketches is a three-movement affair in which the up-tempo outer movements embrace a sultry tango middle movement. For advanced

Take a break from weighty classics with Rae's arrangements of ten "light classics." These easy to intermediate transcriptions include piano accompaniments that teachers can easily manage and guitar chords,