Composed by Maxime Alphonse (Jean Marie Maximin François Alphonse, known as Griet, 1880-1930), Two hundred new melodic and gradual studies - Vol. 5 is the fifth book of a set of six, containing 200 études for horn with different levels of difficulty. The level of this fifth book is rated as very difficult and contains 20 studies. As a horn teacher who had also won the Premier Prix in Horn at the Paris Conservatoire, Maxime Alphonse wrote this set progressively to ensure that the content was matching the needs for quality studies, starting with pieces for beginners, and evolving through the books to those for advance students.