Music for Crumhorns, Volume 3

Music for Crumhorns is a massive anthology of Italian, Spanish, French, German and English pieces of many kinds.

About this anthology

This anthology of music suitable for 3, 4 and 5 crumhorns includes music from a wide variety of sixteenth-century sources.  None of the pieces can be shown to be originally intended for crumhorns; the criterion for inclusion is purely that the piece works on those instruments with the minimum of tinkering – alteration of a few isolated notes, and occasional swapping around of parts for odd phrases.  Also I would expect this collection to be useful for mixed groups of crumhorns, dulcians, sackbuts, etc. and now that proper crumhorns with real reeds are available, such combinations become possible.  Where parts go beyond the range of crumhorns, alternatives have been supplied in small notes.  In the pieces where one part has a cantus firmus, the use of a contrasting instrument (or voice) on the line in question is greatly to be recommended.