Musical Sources is a series of recordings of traditional music that was made for the International Music Council by the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation (Berlin/Venice) and released on the Philips label. Most of these recordings were later reissued on the Auvidis label. The series was directed by Alain Daniélou

Alain Daniélou

Alain Daniélou was a French historian, intellectual, musicologist, Indologist, and a noted Western convert to and expert on Shaivite Hinduism.-Life:...

. It was part of the larger UNESCO Collection

UNESCO Collection

UNESCO Collection is a world music record label, under the aegis of UNESCO.The full title of the series was UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World....

 series.

Recordings

	Name	Year	Index number (Philips)	Reissue (Auvidis)	Comments
	The primeval cultures
	Fataleka and Baegu Music/Malaita, Solomon Islands	1973	6586 018	D 8027 (1990)	Recorded by Hugo Zemp. Review by Mervyn McLean in The Journal of the Polynesian Society 84 (1975), #4, pp. 526–529 http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_84_1975/Volume_84,_No._4/Reviews,_p_495-529?action=null; review by Laade Wolfgang in Journal de la Société des océanistes 30, #45 (1974), pp. 314–315 http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/jso_0300-953x_1974_num_30_45_2674_t1_0314_0000_2.
	Aka pygmy music	1973	6586 016	D 8054 (1994)	Recorded 1971 by Simha Arom Simha Arom Simha Arom is a French-Israeli ethnomusicologist who is recognized as an expert on the music of central Africa, especially that of Central African Republic. His books include African Polyphony and Polyrhythm: Musical Structure and Methodology ISBN 0-521-24160-X. He also made some historical field... . Review by Alan P. Merriam in Ethnomusicology, 20, #1 (Jan. 1976), pp. 166–167, .
	Ceremonial, ritual, and magic music
	Tibetan ritual	1971	6586 007	D 8034 (1991)	Recorded by Manfred Junius & P.C. Misra.
	Shomyo-Buddhist ritual from Japan: Dai Hannya Ceremony-Shingon Sect	1974	6586 021	D 8036 (1991)
	Islamic ritual from Yugoslavia: Zikr of the Rufa'i Brotherhood	1974	6586 015	D 8055 (1994)	Recorded in Kosovo Kosovo Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia... . Review by Kurt Reinhard and James Porter in Ethnomusicology 22, #1 (Jan. 1978), pp. 212–214, .
	Ceremonial music from northern Dahomey	1974	6586 022		Recorded 1973 by Simha Arom.
	Fidjeri/Songs of the Bahrain Pearl Divers	1976?	6586 017	D 8046 (1992)	Recordings, notes and photos by Habib Hussan Touma. Review by Poul Rovsing Olsen in Ethnomusicology 25, #3, Pacific Issue (Sep. 1981), pp. 557–558, .
	Zikr : Islamic ritual Rifa'iyya brotherhood of Aleppo	1975	6586 030	D 8013 (1989)
	The language of rhythm
	O-Suwa-Daiko: Japanese Drums. The Language of Rhythm	1978	6586 029	D 8030 (1990)
	Iqa'at: Iraki traditional rhythmic structures	1979	6586 038	D 8044 (1992)	Program notes and recordings by Habib Hassan Touma.
	Rhythms of the Manding	1979	6586 042
	Religious psalmody
	Jewish music	1971	6586 001		Recording and commentary by Amnon Shiloah. Review by Abraham Schwadron in Ethnomusicology 17, #2 (May 1973), pp. 388–391, .
	The music of the Syrian Orthodox Church	1973	6586 014	D 8075 (1998)
	Liturgical Chants for Lent and Easter Chants (Plain, Gregorian, etc.)	1975	6586 025	D 8015 (1989)	Program notes by Alain Daniélou.
	Modal music and improvisation
	Iranian Dastgah	1971	6586 005
	North India, Vocal Music, Dhrupad and Khyal	1971	6586 003	D 8076 (1998)	Review by Bonnie C. Wade in Ethnomusicology 17, #3 (September 1973), pp. 584–585, .
	Arabian music: Maqam	1971	6586 006
	Kurdish Music	1974	6586 019	D 8023 (1989)
	Egypt: Taqsim and layali	1972	6586 010	D 8038 (1991)
	North India, Instrumental Music, Sitar, Flute, Sarangi	1972	6586 009	D 8017 (1989)
	North India Instrumental Music, Vina, Vichitra Vina, Sarod, Shahnai	1974	6586 020	D 8021 (1989)
	Surynarayana Playing the South Indian Vina	1974	6586 023
	Azerbaijani mugam	1975	6586 027	D 8045 (1992)	Instrumentals by Bahram Mansurov. Reviewed by Inna Naroditskaya in Asian Music 28, #2 (Spring-Summer, 1997), pp. 141–145, .
	Sung poetry (secular and mystic)
	Sung Poetry of the Middle East	1975	6586 024	D 8025 (1989)
	Jewish-Yemenite Diwan Sung Poetry	1978	6586 037	D 8024 (1990)
	Art music from the Far East
	Korean music	1972	6586 011	D 8010 (1988)	Review by Robert C. Provine, Jr., Ethnomusicology 20, #2 (May 1976), pp. 394–396,
	South Vietnam Entertainment Music	1975	6586 028	D 8049 (1993)	Review by Tran Quang Hai in Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council 9 (1977), pp. 145–146, .
	Art music from South-East Asia
	Bali: court music and banjar music	1971	6586 008	D 8059 (1994)
	Java: historic gamelans	197?	6586 004
	Royal music of Cambodia	1971	6586 002	D 8011 (1989)
	Traditional music of Southern Laos	1973	6586 012	D 8042 (1992)
	Music from Sunda, West Java	1976	6586 031	D 8041 (1992)
	Vocal art from Java	1979	6586 041	D 8014 (1989)
	Theatre and dance music
	Balinese theatre and dance music	1973	6586 013
	Hát chèo: Vietnamese traditional folk theatre	1978	6586 035	D 8022 (1989)	Review by Tran Quang Hai in Asian Music 11, #2 (1980), pp. 134–136, ; another review by Tran Quang Hai in Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council 11 (1979), pp. 156–158, .
	Pre-Columbian America
	Amerindian ceremonial music from Chili	1975	6586 026
	Instrumental and vocal traditions of the Mediterranean
	Meditation on the Ney: Turkey	1979	6586 039
	Sources of European polyphony
	Religious music of oral tradition from Rusiu, Corsica	1977	6586 033	D 8012 (1989)
	Black Africa
	Banda Polyphony	1976	6586 032	D 8043 (1992)	Recorded by Simha Arom Simha Arom Simha Arom is a French-Israeli ethnomusicologist who is recognized as an expert on the music of central Africa, especially that of Central African Republic. His books include African Polyphony and Polyrhythm: Musical Structure and Methodology ISBN 0-521-24160-X. He also made some historical field... .
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	Aboriginal Music From Australia		6586 034	D 8040 (1992)
	Inuit Games and Songs	1978	6586 036	D 8032 (1991)	Review by Beverley Cavanagh in Ethnomusicology 25, #2 (May 1981), pp. 349–352, .
	lslamic Religious Chanting from North Yemen		6586 040
	Yodel of Appenzell, Switzerland	1979	6586 044	D 8026 (1990)	Recorded by Hugo Zemp. Review by Dieter Christensen in Ethnomusicology 28, #2 (May 1984), pp. 372–374, ; review by Maguy P. Andral in Yearbook for Traditional Music Yearbook for Traditional Music The Yearbook for Traditional Music is a peer-reviewed academic journal on the subjects of music and dance research. It is published by the International Council for Traditional Music, once a year in December... 16 (1984), pp. 136–137, .
	Ainu Songs		6586 045	D 8047 (1993)	Review by Linda Fujie in Ethnomusicology 29, #1 (Winter 1985), pp. 132–133, .