Guillaume Balay (1871-1943) served in the French military as a prolific Cornet player having won first place in the 1894 Cornet Award competition at the National Academy of Music in Paris. His compositions and studies were popular in the Cornet and brass repertoire at the time including his Fifteen Studies for Cornet. This Balay work remains within the Cornet study repertoire to this day and is suitable to advance level players. The Fifteen Studies address features including accidentals breath control intervals range ornamentation chromaticism complex rhythms dynamics performance directions andvariations in time and key signatures among other aspects. These quirky studies provide the advanced Cornet player with exciting exercises to ensure progress to a high level of technique.

Student Instrumental Course-Studies And Melodious Etudes Part I is a supplementary technic book of the Belwin 'Student Instrumental Course'. Although planned as a companion and correlating book to the method book The Cornet Student it can also be used effectively with most elementary cornet instruction books. It provides for extended and additional treatment in technical areas which are limited in the basic method because of lack of space. Emphasis is on developing musicianship through scales warm-ups and technical drills musicianship studies and interesting melody-like etudes.