Compiled and introduced by A. L. Lloyd
Production by Douglas Cleverdon
What music sounded like in neolithic bmes, or in Plato's Greece, or even in "early medieval Europe, we hardly know.
Yet there still survive in Europe today fragments of music and musical styles whose age can be measured not merely in hundreds but in thousands of years. The folklore collector with his tape-recorder can help to fill in a picture that the music historian and the archaeologist have to leave largely blank.