The aim of these little Consort Books is twofold. (1) to provide, in handy form, music for informal groups of recorders, strings and piano · examples of the best part-music of each age; and (2) to suggest to the producers of period plays, pageants and maskes, short pieces which they could use for incidental music and dances. In this, the addition of the recorder to the more usual strings and piano can give the period quality which would otherwise be lacking.