Compiled from previously issued recordings (performer details given on the inserts). There are several tracks listed on the inserts, but blank on the discs, labeled as "unavailable" (some of these materialized on the later edition, some were replaced). These are given in brackets in the contents below.

Book is catalogued separately.

[cd. 2] Quis dabit capiti meo aquam / Isaac

Surge, amica mea / Palestrina

Super flumina Babylonis / Palestrina

[Full fathom five : Ariel's song / Robert Johnson]

Now is the month of Maying / Morley

Christmas oratorio. Chorales V & IX / J.S. Bach

Toccata & fugue in D minor / J.S. Bach

Le bougeois gentilhomme. 5 excerpts / Lully

Don Giovanni. 3 excerpts / Mozart

(What did I do to be so) Black and Blue (Louis Armstrong) / Razaf ; Waller

East St. Louis Toodle-Oo / Duke Ellington

Parker's mood / Charlie Parker

Civilization Day (excerpt) / Ornette Coleman

The race / Jane Ira Bloom.

[cd. 1] Play of Daniel. 5 selections / anon.

Be m'an perdut. 2 versions (Norgaard, Hillier) / Bernart de Ventadorn

[La Mesnie fauveline / anon.]

Hoquetus David / Machaut

Griot praise song / anon. Kusasi (Lyrichord rec.)

Song of Zomadonou ; Chorus & drums for opening dance ; When you raise your sword (Odomoussi the priest) ; The way is free ; Nifossousso dance ; Men call Botro for the dance ; Chorus for the Botro dance / anon., Dahomey (Everest rec.)

[Tribal music of India]

Lavanasuravadham / anon. Kathakali (p1989, Chant du Monde (LDX 274910)

Raga Lalit [excerpt] / Brij Narajan, Zakir Hussain (Nimbus rec.)

[Chinese opera].

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Civilization, Western > History.