Musica Antiqua of London is a group of instrumentalists specialising in the performance of Renaissance music. The group takes as its model the court bands of the sixteenth century, with their blend of virtuosity and versatility. Musica Antiqua is unique in that all its members are experts on a wide variety of Renaissance instruments, including recorders, viols, crumhorns, and rebecs. This enables them to create 'whole consorts' (different sizes of the same instruments played together), and 'broken consorts' (mixed groupings of instruments from different families), as well as providing a shawm band and a number of other instruments of the period.