Dance Music-The Schott Recorder Consort Anthology presents a wealth of music from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Although the bulk of the collection is laid out for a variety of four-part ensembles there are also duets and trios as well as five- and six-part pieces.The repertoire includes both original instrumental works and transcriptions of vocal pieces. There are lively and stately dances fantasias and arrangements of expressive madrigals catchy chansons and more restrained religious pieces; all are chosen for their effective realization by recorder consorts. 136 Renaissance pieces with notes on sources editorial technique and interpretation. Volume I contains avaluable introduction to the series and to the art of consort playing. 2-6 recorders: Descant Treble Tenor Bass in various combinations.

Octo Tonorum Melodiae-Frutti Musicali a series of ensemble music from the Renaissance and early Baroque addresses itself to all friends of early music. Practical editions with authoritative musical texts offer an selection of pieces performable in a variety of instrumental combination and allow a wide range of musicians to savor the delights of these largely unknown “musical fruits”.Thomas Stoltzer´s (c. 1480–1526) “Octo Tonorum Melodiae” are possibly the first five-part cycle conceived entirely for instruments. These eight fantasias in the church modes number among the most original works of their time.