Monuments is a series dedicated to publishing choral music from the Renaissance and Early Baroque that have particular cultural significance to Denmark. It includes works by Danish composers, such as Mogens Pedersøn, foreigners with whom Danish musicians of the periods are known to have studied, such as Giovanni Gabrieli, and composers of whom you may never have heard. Most of this music was found in a handwritten set of books once belonging to Herlufsholm school. How this music, which was used by the copyists of the school collection, ended up in Denmark in the first place is the subject of a major research project led by Ole Kongsted, Peter Hauge and Harold Thalange, and run by Musica Ficta Copenhagen with support from Augustinus Foundation, and Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansen Foundation.
