In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the American Recorder Society embarked upon an ambitious project to publish a series of inexpensive performing editions of early music and folk music for recorder consort. The editors of these publications were several then-luminaries of the recorder world, such as Erich Katz, LaNoue Davenport, and Bernard Krainis. Special editorial emphasis was placed on arranging music so that it could be played by a consort of instruments lacking a bass recorder. After twelve publications had been released by the original publisher, the series was continued by Associated Music Publishers with editions numbered 13 to 40. Virtually all of these latter publications have been out of print and unavailable for several decades. However, we are happy to relate that a long-overlooked cache of the first dozen editions, as well as two of the later editions, are once again available from Antique Sound Workshop. All early music enthusiasts should have these highly useful, well-edited, extremely inexpensive set of publications in their libraries.

†Only a very few copies still available of this title.

Also unavailable for a long time has been the small but select catalogue of music for recorder ensemble from Centaur Recorder Editions. The works published include a superb extended original contemporary composition in a neo-Hindemith style by Erich Katz for recorder consort and percussion, as well as useful, well-edited publications of early and folk music for three and four recorders by Katz, Davenport, Donough, Grove, and Jeanne. As with the ARS editions listed above, most of these works were transposed so that they could readily be played by only soprano, alto, and tenor instruments.

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