''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 (4 October 1907 – 27 January 1994) was a French historian, Indologist, intellectual, musicologist, translator, writer, and notable Western convert to and expert on the Shaivite sect of Hinduism. In 1991 he was awarded the Sa ...

. It was part of the larger

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''. Starting in 1961, the label, created in collaboration with Alain Daniélou, has r ...

series.p. 26, ''Continuum encyclopedia of popular music of the world'', vol. 1, ed. John Shepherd, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003, .

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