Amherst Early Music publishes four player-friendly editions of music. The books lie flat on the music stand and the pieces have no page turns. The repertoire is accessible and playable for a number of different instruments, and is not available in other modern editions. All four are important musical sources that tell us a lot about historical practices at the time they were written or printed.
Canti B followed Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A as the second book in Petrucci’s three-volume series of collections of Franco-Flemish songs and instrumental works.
Second Revised Edition, 2005 This landmark collection of 96 pieces in three to five voices by Josquin, Isaac, Compère, Agricola, and others, was the first printed book of polyphonic music, originally published by Ottaviano Petrucci in Venice (1501).
Newly Revised Fourth Edition 2012. The first modern edition of the music of the Archivo de San Pedro de Lerma, ms. mus.1, presents a fascinating look into the repertoire of the church wind band in Lerma, Spain, ca. 1600.
The set of six manuscript partbooks known as Regensburg, Bischöfliche Zentralbibliothek, Ms. A.R. 775-777 is one of the most significant sources of vocal music selected and copied for instrumental ensemble in the second half of the sixteenth century.
