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Merle J. Isaac Collection
Merle J. Isaac Methods Books & Folios
METHOD BOOKS AND FOLIOS
Merle published some of the earliest method books for strings, first appearing in 1938. In an interesting “historical Perspective” within his commentary on Merle Isaac’s 1973 composition Quinto-Quarto Suite author William Dyson had this to say about the use of method books in the early 1900s:
“During the first three decades of the twentieth century, string instruction in schools in this country was haphazard. Orchestras were affiliated with schools, but students in the orchestra ( usually ten to fifteen members) were products of private instruction. Although Herforth published his A Tune a Day in 1927 and the Merle Isaac String Method was published in 1938, it was not until the 1950s that the concept of heterogeneous string class teaching began to take hold. This concept continued into the 1960s and 1970s with string methods by Muller-Rusch, Applebaum, Matesky and Rush, Etling, and Wisniewski and Higgins.ii”
Merle’s 1938 “String Class Method” books were followed by dozens of folios with solos and elementary orchestra arrangements which were published from the 1930s into the 1980s. Please GO HERE for a complete list of Merle Isaac’s method books and folios.
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AA1 Band Book – Twenty-eight 4-page scores – 9.5×12.75” ink manuscript, dated 1955-56 [M1/1]
(1-Waltz / 2-Waltz / 3-March / 4-March / 5-Waltz / 6-Waltz / 7-March / 8-March / 9-Moderato / 10-Chorale / 11-Waltz / 12-Waltz / 13-March / 14- March / 15-Moderato / 16-Fox Trot / 17- Waltz / 18- Waltz / 19- March / 20-Andante / 21- Go Tell Aunt Rodie / 22-Waltz / 23- Waltz / 24-Fox Trot / 25- Fox Trot / 26-London Waltz / 27- Overture / 28- Chorale in Waltz Time)
AA1 Band Book (1-28– Twenty-eight 2-page scores – 10.75×13. 5” pencil manuscript, no date [M1/1]
Achievement Choral Collection for soprano, alto, baritone (Various / compiled and arranged by Merle J. Isaac, M.A.) 20 pages 7×10.5” / Carl Fischer, Inc., 1951 [M1/2]
(The Erie Canal / Li’l ‘Liza Jane / Billy Boy / Polly Wolly Doodle / Czech Dance Song / Spanish Guitar / Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho / Listen to the Lambs / Little David, Play on Your Harp / Old Man Noah / Rig-a-Jig-Jig / All Through the Night / Clementine / There’s Music in the Air)
Achievement Orchestra Folio Volume 1 – A Collection of Original Compositions for Young Orchestras / Compiled and Arranged by Merle J. Isaac, M.A. – 40 pages (Piano-Conductor) / 20 pages (1st Violin) 7×10.5” / Carl Fischer, Inc., 1951 [M1/3]
(1. Sunday Afternoon. Idyll-Robert Leland / 2. October. Novellette-Robert Leland / 3. The Silken Fan. Minuet-Merle J. Isaac / 4. Springtime. Waltz-Barbara Adams / 5. Dignity. Four-Four March-Courtney Drake / 6. Fujiyama. Japanese Intermezzo-Courtney Drake / 7. Siesta. Spanish Serenade-Merle J. Isaac / 8. Manitou. Indian Dance-Courtney Drake / 9. Step and Glide. A Dance Tune-Margrethe Monroe / 10. With Spirit. March-Merle J. Isaac / 11. Two Chorales-arranged by Merle J. Isaac – I. Thy Will Be Done (German, 16th Century) II. Evening (Robert Schumann, excerpt from Op. 23, No. 4) / 12. Six-Eight. March-Merle J. Isaac)
Activity Orchestra Folio – A Collection of Original Compositions for Young Orchestras Selected and Arranged by Merle J. Isaac, M.A. – 32 pages (Piano-Conductor) / 12 pages (1st Violin) 7×10.5” / Carl Fischer, Inc., 1939 [M1/4]
(1. Two Chorals Merle J. Isaac / 2. In a Glider (Waltz) Barbara Adams / 3. All in Step (March) Robert Leland / 4. Vacation Days (Waltz) Barbara Adams / 5. Awake, My Heart and Sing (Choral) J. Krueger / 6. Carol Gascony / 7. Our School March Merle J. Isaac / 8. Song of Thanksgiving Germany (1530) / 9. Dancing Robert Leland / 10. March of-the Dwarfs Courtney Drake / 11. Ting-a-Ling adapted by Merle J. Isaac / 12. Autumn (Waltz) Margrethe Monroe / 13. Jinrikisha (Chinese Dance) Courtney Drake / 14. In the Garden (Waltz) Margrethe Monroe)
Advancement Orchestra Folio – A Collection of Light Classics for Young Orchestras Selected and Arranged by Merle J. Isaac, M.A. – 44 pages (Piano-Conductor) / 16 pages (1st Violin) 7×10.5” / Carl Fischer, Inc., 1939 [M1/5]
(1. Alla Turca, Op. 19, No. 8 – E. Schmidt / 2. Lullaby, Op. 12, No. 5 – H. Kjerulf / 3. Poem – Z. Fibich / 4. Petite Bourree – A. de Prosse / 5. Valhalla – R. Wagner / 6. Minuet – J. Haydn / 7. Spanish Dance – M. Moszkowski / 8. Serenade – F. Schubert / 9. Andante from “The Surprise Symphony” – J. Haydn / 10. Country Dance – L. v. Beethoven / 11. A Mighty Fortress – M. Luther / 12. Pavane – M. Ravel)
Album of Concert Clarinet Solos with Piano Accompaniment – Arranged and Edited by Merle J. Isaac and Clifford P. Lillya – 126 pages (Piano) / 64 pages (Clarinet) 9×12” / M.M. Cole Publishing Co., 1941 [M1/6]
Album of Concert Cornet and Trumpet Solos with Piano Accompaniment – Arranged and Edited by Merle J. Isaac and Clifford P. Lillya – 126 pages (Piano) / 64 pages (Clarinet) 9×12” / M.M. Cole Publishing Co., 1941 [M1/7]
Album of Concert Saxophone Solos with Piano Accompaniment – Arranged and Edited by Merle J. Isaac and Clifford P. Lillya – 126 pages (Piano) / 64 pages (Saxophone) 9×12” / M.M. Cole Publishing Co., 1941 [M1/8]
Album of Concert Trombone Solos with Piano Accompaniment – Arranged and Edited by Merle J. Isaac – 126 pages (Piano) 9×12” / 126 pages (Piano) / 64 pages (Trombone) 9×12” / M.M. Cole Publishing Co., 1941 [M1/9]
Album of Favorite Cello Solos with Piano Accompaniment – Arranged and Edited by Merle J. Isaac and Clifford P. Lillya – 126 pages (Piano) / 64 pages (Cello) 9×12” / M.M. Cole Publishing Co., 1941 [M1/10]
Album of Favorite Clarinet Solos with Piano Accompaniment – Arranged and Edited by Merle J. Isaac and Clifford P. Lillya – 126 pages (Piano) / 64 pages (Clarinet) 9×12” / M.M. Cole Publishing Co., 1941 [M1/11]
Album of Favorite Cornet and Trumpet Solos with Piano Accompaniment – Arranged and Edited by Merle J. Isaac – 126 pages (Piano) / 64 pages (Cornet) 9×12” / M.M. Cole Publishing Co., 1940 [M1/12]
Album of Favorite Flute Solos with Piano Accompaniment – Arranged and Edited by Merle J. Isaac and Clifford P. Lillya – 126 pages (Piano) / 64 pages (Flute) 9×12” / M.M. Cole Publishing Co., 1941 [M1/13]
Album of Favorite Saxophone (Alto) Solos with Piano Accompaniment – Arranged and Edited by Merle J. Isaac and Clifford P. Lillya – 126 pages (Piano) / 64 pages (Saxophone) 9×12” / M.M. Cole Publishing Co., 1940 [M1/14]
Album of Favorite Trombone Solos with Piano Accompaniment – Arranged and Edited by Merle J. Isaac and Clifford P. Lillya – 126 pages (Piano) 9×12” / M.M. Cole Publishing Co., 1941 [M2/1]
Album of Favorite Violin Solos with Piano Accompaniment – Arranged and Edited by Merle J. Isaac – 126 pages (Piano) / 64 pages (Violin) 9×12” / M.M. Cole Publishing Co., 1941 [M2/2]
(Bach: Ave Maria / Bach: Come, Sweet Death / Balfe: Killarney / Bizet: Agnus Dei / Bland: Carry Me Back to Old Virginny / Bohm: Still as the Night / Carey: America / College: Polly Wolly Doodle / College: Seeing Nellie Home / Cowboy: Home on the Range / Debussy: Reverie / Debussy: Romance / Denza: Funiculi, Funicula / di Capua: Beneath Thy Window / di Capua: Maria, Mari / di Capua: 0 Sole Mio / di Capua: la Spagnola / Dvorak: Songs My Mother Taught Me / Dykes: Holy, Holy, Holy! / Emmett: Dixie .- / English: Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes : / Fernandez: Oielito Lindo / Flotow: Ah! So Pure / Foster: My Old Kentucky Home / Foster: Oh! Susanna / Foster: Old Black Joe / Foster: Old Folks At Home / German: Little Man / Godard: Berceuse from Jocelyn / Gounod: Ave Maria / Grieg: I Love Thee / Grieg: Solvejg’s Song / Gruber: Silent Night / Halevy: Call Me Thine Own / Handel: Largo / Handel: Wher’er You Walk / Humperdinck: Evening Prayer / lljinsky: Cradle Song / Irish: Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms / Irish: Irish Washerwoman / etc)
Attainment Orchestra Folio (full orchestra) – A Collection of Original Compositions for Young Orchestras Selected and Arranged by Merle J. Isaac, M.A. – 40 pages 7×10.5” (Piano-Conductor) / 14 pages (1st Violin A) 7×10.5” / Carl Fischer, Inc., 1944 [M2/3]
Belwin Orchestra Folio – Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 72 pages (Score) 9×12” / Belwin Inc. 1961 [M2/4]
(Drigo, Richard: Serenade / Meyer-Helmund: Mazurka / Debussy: Romance / Corelli: Prelude / Bach: Choral Melody – Komm, Susser Tod / Chopin: Prelude / Mozart: Gavotte from Idomeneo / Schubert: Entr’acte from Rosamunde / Tchaikovsky: Humoresque / Waldteufel: Espana / Haydn: Minuet / MacDowell: At an Old Trysting Place / Now and Forever / Seymour Smith: Old English Dance)
Cello Etudes – Possibly Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 13 pages (Cello) 9×12” / copies of manuscript, no date [M2/5]
(Etude – Dotzauer – adapted / Etude in CM – after Wohlfahrt / etc. – NOTE: it’s not clear that these are M.I. arrangements, they may just be copies of something else)
Christmas Orchestra Folio – by Merle J. Isaac – 100 pages (Piano-Conductor) 9×12” / Belwin Inc., 1960 [M2/6]
(19 Christmas Carols / 1 Piano solo with orchestra accompaniment / 1 Narration with orchestra accompaniment / 2 Marches / 3 Selections)
Concert Hall Orchestra Folio (full orchestra) – by Merle J. Isaac – 84 pages (Score) 9×12” / Belwin Inc., 1958 [M2/7]
(Parade March – Robert Leland / From the West Overture – Merle J. Isaac / Columbine Waltz – Earl Drake / Cheerleaders March – Robert Leland / From the West – Oriental Overture – Merle J. Isaac / Dream Girl Waltz = Earl Drake / Shadows and Sunlight – Karl Komzak / Hasta La Vista – J. Rodriguez / When the Skies Are Blue – Merle J. Isaac / Barbara Polka – J. Kovarik / Hillbilly Hoe Down – Merle J. Isaac)
Concert String Ensemble (full orchestra) – Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 28 pages (Piano-Score) 9×12” / M.M. Cole Publishing Co., 1966 [M2/8]
(Give My Regards to Broadway – George M. Cohan / Daisy Bell – Harry Dacre / Keel Row, Loch Lomond – Scottish Folk Songs / Dancing Sunbeams – Merle J. Isaac / There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Twon Tonight – Hayden & Metz / Valse Chromatique – Merle J. Isaac / How D’ye do? – Folk Song)
Demonstration Score – Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 2 pages (Piano-Score) 9×12” manuscript, no date [M2/9]
(March of the Priests from “Magic Flute” – Mozart / Sarabande from “Rinaldo” – Handel / Nocturne (abridged) from “Midsummer Night’s Dream – Mendelssohn)
Easy To Play Band Folio – Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 66 pages (Conductor Score) 9×12” / Robbins Music, 1955 [M2/10]
(China Boy / Colonel Parker / Do You Ever Think Of Me / Goofus / I’m An Old Cowhand / Linda Mujer / Oye Negra / Peggy O’Neil / Ramona / When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain / You Were Meant For Me)
Ensemble Time for Strings (string orchestra) – by Merle J. Isaac – 32 pages (Full Score) 9×12” / Forest R. Etling, 1980 [M2/11]
Etling Cello Quartet Series – Suite No. 1 – Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 14 pages (Full Score) / 4 pages (parts) 9×12” / Forest R. Etling, 1981 [box M2/12]
(1. Minuet, J.S. Bach / 2. See, The Conquering Hero Comes, Handel / 3. Petite Bouree, Angelo De Prosse)
Etling String Quartet Series – Book 2 – Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 28 pages (Full Score) 9×12” / Forest R. Etling, 1980 [M2/13]
(Charles Avison: Concerto in E Minor – Third Movement / Handel: Sarabande and Crusaders’ March from Rinaldo / Beethoven: Minuetto from Sonata in G, Op. 49/2 / Purcell: Air, Minuet, and Rondo from Abdelazer / Bolzoni: Minuetto / Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 – First Movement – Adapted)
Etling Violin Quartet Series – Book 2 – Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 68 pages (Conductor Score) 9×12” / Forest R. Etling, 1980 [M2/14]
(Andante and Allegro – Mozart / Brandenburg Concerto, No. 3 – Bach / Fascination – Marchetti / Hopak – Mussorgsky / Hunter’s Chorus – von Weber / Serenade – Toselli / To A Wild Rose – MacDowell / Concerto in E Minor – Avison / Two South America Songs: Aye, Aye, Aye! – Feire / La Cumparsita – Rodgriguez)
Etling Violin Quartet Series – Book 5 – Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 80 pages (Full Score) 9×12” / Forest R. Etling, 1980 [M2/15]
(Brandenburg Concerto, No. 5, 1st movement (adapted) – Bach / Prelude and Courante – Eccles / Rondeau – Mouret / Tambourin – Gretry / Gavotte and Musette – Gluck / March in D – Mozart / El Relicario – Padilla / Down By the Riverside – spiritual / Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair – Foster / You’re A Grand Old Flag – Cohan & Sousa)
Fiddling by the Numbers – A Violin Rote Method for All by Samuel Barbakoff – Edited by Merle Isaac, Illustrated by Tom O’Brien – 76 pages 9×12” / Carl Fischer, Inc., 1951 [M2/16]
(see 1951 letter from Mr. Barbakoff in folder with this folio)
First Ten Minutes (string orchestra) – Warm-Up Exercises for Strings Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 12 pages (Conductor) / 12 pages (Violin) 9×12” / Wynn/Music, 1987 [M2/17]
Fun With Flats, Part 1 – Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 16 pages (Conductor) / 4 pages (parts) 8.5×11” / Wynn/Music, 1987 [M3/1]
Fun With Flats, Part 2 – Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 14 pages (Piano Conductor) / 8.5×12” / manuscript, no date [M3/2]
(At Pierrot’s Door / Yankee Doodle / Arkansas Traveler / Skip To My Lou / The Mulberry Bush / First Etude / Second Etude / Auld Lang Syne / Scales)
Melody Book for Strings – Eleven Pieces for Young String Players – Composed or Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 48 pages (Full Score) / 12 Pages (Violin) 9×12” / Carl Fischer, Inc., 1954 [M3/3]
(1. In the Garden – Waltz – Monroe / 2. All In Step – March – Leland / 3. Valse Melodique – Waltz – Adams / 4. Autumn Leaves (Etude Chromatique) – Kroma / 5. Sans Souci (Without Care) – d’Archet / 6,7,8. Romanza, Barcarolle (Song of the Gondolier), From the Northland – Isaac / 9. Tsin Hsu – Chiang / 10,11. Rondino, Strummin’ – Isaac)
Melody Book for Strings – New Edition – Eight Solos and Three Orchestrations for String orchestra – Composed or Arranged by Merle J. Isaac, Dorothy A. Straub and Robert S. Genualdi – 12 pages (Violin) 9×12” / Carl Fischer, Inc., 1954, 1996 [M3/4]
(Barcarolle / Barcarolle – Orchestra part / From the Northland / From the Northland – Orchestra part / Romanza / Rondino / Rondino – Orchestra part /Sans Souci / Serenade for Yasuaki / Two Plus Three / Valse Melodique)
[NOTE: we have no other parts for this book, incl. conductor]
Merle Isaac Band Book No. 1 – A Collection of Original Compositions for Young -Bands – Eight Solos and Three Orchestrations for String orchestra – Selected and Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 98 pages (Conductor) 7×10.5” / Carl Fischer, Inc., 1938, 1953 [M3/5]
(Sunday Afternoon – Robert Leland / October – Robert Leland /The Silken Fan – Merle J. Isaac / Springtime – Barbara Adams / Dignity – Courtney Drake / Fujiyama – Courtney Drake / Siesta – Merle J. Isaac / Manitou – Courtney Drake / Step and Glide – Margarethe Monroe / Six-Eight March – Merle J. Isaac / Lullaby – Merle J. Isaac / Thow Chorales – arr. Merle J. Isaac (Thy Will Be Done – German, 16th Century / Evening – Robert Dschumann, excerpt from op. 23, No. 4) / With Spirit – March – Merle J. Isaac)
Merle Isaac Orchestra Folio – Containing a Variety of Famous Compositions and Folk Songs – Arranged for Young Players by Merle J. Isaac – 60 pages (Conductor Score) / 16 pages (1st Violin) 9×12” / Carl Fischer, Inc., 1957 [M3/6]
(Abide With Me / Bagdad / Belle Isle Waltz / Bluebells of Scotland / Chorale / Crusader’s Hymn / Daisy Bell / Did You Ever See A Lassie? / Grandfather’s Clock / Gypsy Love Song / How Can I Leave Thee / Intermezzo / Kentucky Babe / Long, Long Ago / March for Young Folks / Over the River and Through the Wood / Pop! Goes the Weasel / Rakes of Mallow / Sent My Brown Jug Downtown / Solomon Levi / Winston Hoe Down / Win, Team, Win)
Merle Isaac Orchestra Folio – Containing a Variety of Famous Masterpieces – Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 71 pages (Conductor Score) 9×12” / Carl Fischer, Inc., 1961 [M3/7]
(Serenade – Richard Drigo / Mazurka – Meyer-Helmund / Romance – Debussy / Prelude – Corelli / Choral Melody – Bach / Prelude – Chopin / Gavotte – Mozart / Entr-acte – Schubert / Humoresque – Tschaikowski / Espana Waltz – Waldteufel / Minuet – Haydn / At an Old Trysting Place – MacDowell / Now and Forever / Old English Dance – Seymour Smith)
Mood Melodies for String orchestra – Arranged For String orchestra by Merle J. Isaac – 48 pages (Piano-Conductor) 9×12” / Robbins Music Corporation, 1958 [M3/8]
(Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo / How Green Was My Valley / I’ll See You In My Dreams / I’m In the Mood for Love / Laura / Love Is A Many-Spendored Thing / Lygia / Sentimentyal Rhapsody / Someday You’ll Find Your Bluebird / You Were Meant For Me)
Orchestra Rehearsal Fundamentals – by Isaac , Merle and Fred Weber – 48 pages (Piano-Conductor) / 28 pages (Violin) 9×12” / Belwin Inc. 1958 [M3/9]
(Tuning Fun / Chords and Arpeggios / Chorales / etc.)
Orchestral Exercises Part 1 – by Merle J. Isaac – 12 pages (Piano-Conductor) / 4 pages (Violins etc) 9×12” / Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. 1946 [M3/10]
Orchestral Exercises Part 2 – by Merle J. Isaac – 12 pages (Piano-Conductor) / 4 pages (Violins etc) 9×12” / Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. 1947 [M3/10]
Orchestral Exercises Part 3 – by Merle J. Isaac – 12 pages (Piano-Conductor) / 4 pages (Violins etc) 9×12” / Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. 1953 [M3/10]
Our School Orchestra Folio – Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 80 pages (Piano-Conductor) 9×12” / Robbins Music Corporation 1953 [M3/11]
(A Song of Old Hawaii / Anchors Aweigh / Daybreak / Goofus / I Don’t Know Why / I’ll See You In My Dreams / I’m An Old Cowhand (from the Rio Grande) / Jeannine (I Dream of Lilac Time) / Linda Mujer / Our Director / Oye Negra / Pagan Love Song / Ramona / When I Grow Too Old To Dream You Were Meant For Me)
Preparatory Strings to the Belwin Orchestra Builder – by Merle J. Isaac – 56 pages (Score) 9×12” / Belwin, 1955 [M3/12]
Progressive Melody Book (piano, violin, cello parts only) – incomplete manuscript / 9.5×12.5” [M3/13]
Silver Strings Folio Book 1 (string orchestra) – A Folio of Light Program / Dinner Music for String orchestra – Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 78 pages (Conductor Score) / 16 pages (Violin / etc) / 9×12” / Etling Publishing, 1981 [M3/14]
(Two American Folk Songs / Invitation to the Dance / Moto Perpetuo / The Mikado (selection) / Waltz in G / Hungarian Dance No. 4 / Canto Amoroso / Two South American Songs / Fascination)
Silver Strings Folio Book 3 (string orchestra) – A Folio of Light Program / Dinner Music for String orchestra – Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 74 pages (Full Score) / 16 pages (Violin / etc) / 9×12” / Highland / Etling Publishing, 1984 [M3/15]
(Gipsy Dance / La Sorella / El Relicario / Sertenade / Nocturne / Washington Post March / The Red Mill / Gypsy Life / Jeannie)
String Bass Exercises and Studies – Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 16 pages (String Bass) 9×12” / mimeograph copy of manuscript, no date [M3/16]
(Studies in the Half Position: Andante and Gavotte / Waltz / Scherzo / Chanson / Jollity / Rondino / First Position: G Major Waltz / Waltz / D Major Etude / Valse / Chinese Song / Quintero / Second Position: Barcarolle / March / Demetrius / Etude in Six-Eight Time / Exercises in F Major / Exercises in G Major / (Dotzauer – adapted): Scales)
String Class Method Book 1 – for the Teaching of Violin, Viola, Cello and Bass – by Merle J. Isaac – 64 pages (Piano Score / Violin / etc) / 9×12” / M.M. Cole Publishing Co., 1941 [M3/16]
String Class Method Book 1 – Revised Edition – by Merle J. Isaac – 64 pages (Piano Score / Violin / etc) / 9×12” / M.M. Cole Publishing Co., 1966 (1938, Renewed 1965) [M4/1]
String Class Method Book 2 – for the Teaching of Violin, Viola, Cello and Bass – by Merle J. Isaac – 64 pages (Piano Score / Violin / etc) / 9×12” / M.M. Cole Publishing Co., 1940-41 [M4/2]
String Class Method Book 2 – Revised Edition – by Merle J. Isaac – 64 pages (Piano Score / Violin / etc) / 9×12” / M.M. Cole Publishing Co., 1968 (1941, Renewed 1968) [M4/3]
Strings in Recital – An Album For String Ensemble or Violin Quartet – Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 36 pages (Score) 9×12” / Belwin, 1955 [M4/4]
(Bouree – J.S. Bach / Country Gardens – English Folk Tune / Dreams of Vienna – Johann Strauss / Erotikon – Grieg / Gypsy Love Song – Victor Herbert / Jenny Lind Polka – A. Wallerstein / My Heart Ever Faithful – J.S. Bach / Rendezvous – W Aletter / The Rosary – Nevin / La Spagnola – V. Di Chiara)
Strings Moderne for String orchestra – Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 44 pages (Piano-Conductor) 9×12” / Robbins Music Corporation, 1952 [M4/5]
(Deep Purple / Blue Moon / Over the Rainbow / Stairway to the Stars / In a Little Spanish Town / Once in a While / Daybreak / Siboney / When I Grow Too Old To Dream / Jeannine (I Dream of Lilac Time))
Syncopating Strings– Developing Rhythm and Bowing Skills in the String orchestra – Compiled and Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 60 pages (Score) / 16 Pages (Violin) 9×12” / Carl Fischer, Inc., 1966 [M4/6]
(Let’s All Remember, Echo,. Blue as the Moon, You And Me, Most Adorable, Valse Syncope – all by Merle Isaac / Soldier Songs, American Girls – American Folk Songs / Spirituals / Mexican Beauties / Gypsy Dances – arr. Isaac / Estudiantina Waltzes – Waldteufel / La Cumparsita – Rodriguez / Rock-A My Soul – Spiritual)
Violin Soloist, The (in 4 Volumes) – Concert / Contest Book 2 – Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 16 + 40 pages (Violin / Piano Accompaniment) 9×12” / Forest R. Etling Publishing, 1981 [M4/7]
(Concerto in E Minor – Avison / Canto Amoroso – Sammartini / Air, Minuet & Rondo – Purcell / Three Slavonic Dances – Dvorak / Moto Perpetuo – Jenkinson / Handel Suite / Minuetto – Bolzoni / Hungarian Dance No. 4 – Brahms / Waltz in G – Brahms)
Violin Soloist, The (in 4 Volumes) – Concert / Contest Book 3– Arranged by Merle J. Isaac – 16 + 45 pages (Violin + Piano Accompaniment) 9×12” / Forest R. Etling Publishing, 1981 / includes 6-22-1983 letter from Merle pointing out pagination error in violin part [M4/7]
(Pilgrim’s Chorus – Wagner / Clair De Lune – Debussy / Hungarian Dance No. 6 – Brahms / Humoresque – Dvorak /Prelude and Courante – Eccles / Eine Kleine Nachtmusik – Mozart / Concerto No. 2 – Seitz / Concerto No. 5 – Seitz)
Violin Soloist, The (in 4 Volumes) – Concert / Contest Books 1 & 4– Arr. by F. Etling [M4/7]
Wohlfahrt Foundation Studies for Viola Book 1 – Thirty Studies in First Position (from Opus 45, 54, 74) – a Compilation of the Most Practical Studies Transcribed and Arranged in Progressive Order – by Merle J. Isaac and Ralph C. Lewis – 26 Pages 9×12” / Carl Fischer, Inc., 1938 [M4/8]
Wohlfahrt Foundation Studies for Viola Book 2 – Thirty Studies in Three Positions (from Op. 45, 74) – a Compilation of the Most Practical Studies Transcribed and Arranged in Progressive Order – by Merle J. Isaac and Ralph C. Lewis – 36 Pages 9×12” / Carl Fischer, Inc., 1938 [M4/8]
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