The Melody Book provides a comprehensive background to each of the melodies included in Tone Development Through Interpretation by Marcel Moyse. It offers today's flutist the opportunity to use this valuable flute method as Moyse intended.

Simplified piano accompaniments supply the harmonic backdrop for each melody. Identification and clarification of each work and composer is furnished. Opera synopses, specific scene descriptions, and text with translations are included when applicable. This information equips the flutist with all the tools necessary to realize the potential of Moyse's Tone Development Through Interpretation.