| 1.1 | Kham Hom [Sweet Words] (Berlin, 1900) | Siam Theater Ensemble | |
| 1.2 | Oggayam (Balatoc, Philippines, 1934) | Perfecto Balangi | |
| 1.3 | Tedhak Saking [Descending From...] (Central Javanese Gamelan composition) (Java, 1923) | [unknown] | |
| 1.4 | [Untitled] [Kirshna Song] (Baroda, India, 1933) | Rehana Tyabji | |
| 1.5 | Death Lament of the Kurdish Singer Abdal Ali (Sendschirli, Turkey, 1902) | Abdal Ali | |
| 1.6 | Sapperi Tamma Temima/Od Lo Avda Tikwatenu [Jewish Songs] (Yemen, 1931) | [unknown] | |
| 1.7 | Dil Hirodj [Heart's Admiration] Dance Tune Played on Qobuz (Tashkent, 1905) | [unknown] | |
| 1.8 | [Untitled Track] [Rowing Song of a Boat's Crew on the Yangzi] (Sichuan, China, 1912) | [unknown] | |
| 1.9 | Ezo ya Matsumaye (Niigata, Japan, 1911) | [unknown] | |
| 1.10 | Beginning of Gagaku Composition/Etenraku (Tokyo, Japan, 1911) | Japanese Court Orchestra, Wind | |
| 1.11 | Nurlu (Beagle Bay, Australia, 1910) | [unknown] | |
| 1.12 | Song of the Ujangong [Mask Dance Song] (German New Guinea, 1904) | Baigisa | |
| 1.13 | Interlocking Flutes 1 (New Guinea, 1912) | [unknown] | |
| 1.14 | Interlocking Flutes 2 (New Guinea, 1912) | [unknown] | |
| 1.15 | Tangiboa [A Death Lament] (German New Guinea, 1928) | Dawidi Anam | |
| 1.16 | A Uali [Dance Song] (Balun, Admiralty Islands, 1907) | Baluan at Komuli | |
| 1.17 | Breadfruit Dance Song (Truk Atoll, Micronesia, 1907) | Essep, Island of Uman | |
| 1.18 | Bedouin Song (Yemen, 1931) | Beni Ismail & Jabal Haraz | |
| 1.19 | Bedouin Song (Northeast Algeria, 1927) | Kabyle Berber | |
| 1.20 | Caravan Song (Tunisia, 1929) | [unknown] | |
| 1.21 | Kuadinkro Bessueba [The People of the Village Kuadinkro Want to Arrive] (Abigui, Ivory Coast, 1935) | [unknown] | |
| 1.22 | Five Proverbs Drummed in Twi Language (Togo, 1905) | Okofu From Logba | |
| 1.23 | Music for the Lela Celebration (Bali, Cameroon, 1908) | [unknown] | |
| 1.24 | Vessel Flute Music (Luebo, Congo, 1906) | [unknown] | |
| 1.25 | Music of the "Cisanzi" Board Lamellophone (Central Angolan Highlands, 1913) | Ngangela or Cokwe Musician | |
| 1.26 | Amahoro Meeza (Rwanda, 1907-8) | Bahutu Women of Maraangara | |
| 1.27 | Zande Song 1 (Sudan, 1928) | [unknown] | |
| 1.28 | Zande Song 2 (Sudan, 1928) | [unknown] | |
| 1.29 | Xylophone Piece of the Bondei (Tanganyika, 1903) | [unknown] | |
| 1.30 | Dance Song of Thompson River Indians (British Colombia, 1897) | [unknown] | |
| 1.31 | Eagle Song of the Hopi Indians of Arizona (Berlin, 1906) | [unknown] | |
| 1.32 | Mitote Singing of Cora (Mexico, 1905) | Jesusmaria | |
| 1.33 | Song for "Parischera" Dance of the Taulipang (North-Eastern Brazil - South Venezuela, 1911) | [unknown] | |
| 1.34 | Song of a Chiriguano Indian From Bolivia (San Pedro de Jujuy, Argentina, 1906) | [unknown] | |
| 1.35 | Song From the Youth Initiation (Chile, 1923) | Masemikens Pe | |
| 1.36 | Tvisongvar 1 (Iceland, 1928) | gisli, vilhjalmur, sigur | |
| 1.37 | Tvisongvar 2 (Iceland, 1928) | gisli, vilhjalmur, sigur | |
| 1.38 | Instrumental 1 (Ne Lithuania, 1909) | [unknown] | |
| 1.39 | Instrumental 2 (Parish Juzintai, Ne Lithuania, 1909) | [unknown] | |
| 1.40 | Hola, Matulu Moja [Holla, My Mummy] (Poland, 1930) | Micha | |
| 1.41 | Song From the Bohmerwald (Neuern, Czechoslovakian Republic, 1931) | [unknown] | |
| 1.42 | Sorbian Spinning Room Song (Spreewald, Germany, 1907) | [unknown] | |
| 2.1 | Instrumental Narration [Played on the Duct Flute Düdük] (Antakya, Turkey, 1956) | Mehmet Bayraktara | 3:46 |
| 2.2 | Qaside [Sung by Seyid Ahmet of Şırnak] (Hakkari, Turkey, 1965) | Seyid Ahmet | 4:08 |
| 2.3 | Atābā [Sung and Accompanied on the Spike Fiddle Rabāb] (Wint Al-Rihān, Syria, 1974) | Mukhtar 'Ārif Ijnād | 3:11 |
| 2.4 | Taksim in Maqām Nahāwand [Played on the short-Necked Lute Al-'Ūd] (Nazareth, Israel, 1967) | Jeries Nimir | 7:07 |
| 2.5 | Instrumental Piece 1 [Played on the Zïbïzga (Flute) and the Dombra (Lute) By the Uigur Musicians Sarkat and Toktagan] (Istanbul, Turkey, 1955) | [unknown] | 1:16 |
| 2.6 | Instrumental Piece 2 [Played on the Zïbïzga (Flute) and the Dombra (Lute) By the Uigur Musicians Sarkat and Toktagan] (Istanbul, Turkey, 1955) | [unknown] | 2:07 |
| 2.7 | [Goze Singer Sugimoto Kikue Accompanies Herself on the Shamisen] (Takada, Japan, 1964) | Sugimoto Kikue | 4:15 |
| 2.8 | Initiation Song of the Anga (Village of Seseli, Banir River, New Guinea, 1968) | [unknown] | 0:51 |
| 2.9 | Jew's Harp Piece of the Anga (Village of Seseli, Banir River, New Guinea, 1968) | [unknown] | 1:39 |
| 2.10 | Dance Song for Initiation (Moeneu, Santa Cruz Archipelago, 1967) | [unknown] | 4:10 |
| 2.11 | Mawwāl (Cairo, Egypt, 1955) | [unknown] | 3:03 |
| 2.12 | Nubian Song (Cairo, Egypt, 1955) | [unknown] | 5:12 |
| 2.13 | Song of the Harp Player Kali of the Buduma (Lake Chad Island of n'Guya, Tchad, 1962) | [unknown] | 2:35 |
| 2.14 | Dance of the Hausa Girls With Drumming (Anka, Northern Nigeria, 1961) | [unknown] | 4:30 |
| 2.15 | Zulu Songs [Accompanied by the Musical Bow Ugubhu] (Village of Mahlabatini, South Africa, 1968) | Princess Kadinuzulu | 2:10 |
| 2.16 | "Ntete" [Musical Piece for a Mouth-Resonated Bow] (Village of Chambuluka, Lower Shire Valley, Malaŵi, 1967) | Ntshambo Thole | 3:07 |
| 2.17 | Boat Song 1 (Island of Buvuma, Lake Victoria, Uganda, 1970) | [unknown] | 2:58 |
| 2.18 | Boat Song 2 (Island of Buvuma, Lake Victoria, Uganda, 1970) | [unknown] | 1:58 |
| 2.19 | Haunting Song of the Borana-Galla 1 (Southern Ethiopia, 1951) | [unknown] | 1:19 |
| 2.20 | Haunting Song of the Borana-Galla 2 (Southern Ethiopia, 1951) | [unknown] | 0:54 |
| 2.21 | News Chant of the Waika Indian Olamihu [Upper Orinoco, Venezuela, 1954] | Olamihû | 1:52 |
| 2.22 | Music for an Ayarichi Dance [Played on Panpipes and Drums] (Department of Chuquisaca, Bolivia, 1958) | [unknown] | 3:27 |
| 2.23 | Yoik of the Sami 1 (Karasjok, Norway, 1956) | [unknown] | 1:06 |
| 2.24 | Yoik of the Sami 2 (Karasjok, Norway, 1956) | [unknown] | 1:06 |
| 2.25 | Yoik of the Sami 3 (Karasjok, Norway, 1956) | [unknown] | 0:51 |
| 2.26 | Historical Song (Rugovo, Kosovo, 1959) | Ramë Nikqi & Hysen Ibrahimi | 3:58 |
| 2.27 | Easter Song (Bituse, Macedonia, 1974) | Rista Mirčeska & Duda Nikodinoska | 2:12 |
| 2.28 | Zwiefacher (Aichach, Upper Bavaria, Germany, 1967) | Heinrich Baronner Ensemble | 1:38 |
| 3.1 | Music of the Gamelan Ajeng (Village of Buher, Karawang, West-Java, Indonesia, 1981) | Goong Gambelan Ajeng | 12:07 |
| 3.2 | Jegog Music (Village of Sangkaragung, Northwestern Bali, Indonesia, 1995) | Jegog Jayus | 4:17 |
| 3.3 | Dance Song of the Tigwa Manobo [Accompanied on the Tube Zither and the Boat Lute] (Village of Sitio Kisayab, San Fernando, Bukidnon, Philippines, 1993) | [unknown] | 3:20 |
| 3.4 | Praise Song of the Royal Power Pat Pyo [Composed by Myawaddy Mingyi U Sa] (Rangoon, Myanmar/Burma, 2000) | [unknown] | 4:20 |
| 3.5 | South Vietnamese Music of the Talented (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1999) | [unknown] | 4:42 |
| 3.6 | Aacigu (Mountain Song) (Yuennan, China, 1990) | Aini Heishan | 1:14 |
| 3.7 | Qurbah [Bagpipe Music Performed at a Wedding] (Majīs, Wilāyah Ṣohār, Oman, 1990) | Sa'Īd Shinīn of Ṣallān, Ṣohār, Group | 4:46 |
| 3.8 | Music From the Highland Region of Western New Guinea (Irian Jaya) [Excerpt From a Great Dance Festival] (Munggona (Eipomek), 1976) | [unknown] | 4:49 |
| 3.9 | Christmas Dance of the Yali (Missionary Station Angguruk, Western New Guinea, 1975) | [unknown] | 2:44 |
| 3.10 | Gera Esharbeh [Waza Trumpet Ensembles of the Berta] (Villages of Mitinjalo Near Qessan and Uffud El-Tom, Sudan, 1982) | [unknown] | 2:52 |
| 3.11 | Asa Musa Iadoiya [Waza Trumpet Ensembles of the Berta] (Villages of Mitinjalo Near Qessan and Uffud El-Tom, Sudan, 1982) | [unknown] | 1:54 |
| 3.12 | The Mwirugavu Yalyaki Nkwanzi Group [Ensemble Music for Panpipes and Xylophone] (Village of Namisambia I, Bugosa District, Uganda, 2000) | The Mwirugavu Yalyaki Nkwanzi Group | 4:11 |
| 3.13 | Shi Kalaksai [Praise Music Played by the Ganga Kura Ensemble of the Shehu of Borno] (Maidiguri, Nigeria, 1991) | Ganga Kura Ensemble | 3:19 |
| 3.14 | Reel (Tobago, 1995) | The Rising Youth Ensemble | 3:15 |
| 3.15 | Phukuna [Panflute Ensemble (Kantu) of the Kallawayas] Charazani, Bolivia, 1983 | Kantu | 5:02 |
| 3.16 | Caramelles de Nadal [Christmas Songs] (San Jorge, Eivissa (Ibiza), Spain, 1978) | [unknown] | 4:14 |
| 3.17 | Boche 'e Notte, Tenores (Bitti, Sardinia, 1988) | [unknown] | 5:11 |
| 3.18 | Shavi Shashvi (The Black Trush) [Three-Part Vocal Polyphony] (Guria, Georgia, 1991) | [unknown] | 3:44 |
| 4.1 | Ortsende (Berlin, Germany, 1973) | Paul Gutama Soegijo & The Banjar Gruppe | 4:11 |
| 4.2 | Kripaju [A Composition by Tyāgarāja in Rāgam Chajatharangini and Tālam Aditālam] Performed (Madras, India, 1975) | Raajeswari Padmanabhan, Karaikkudi S. Subramanian & Tanjore Upendran | 4:12 |
| 4.3 | Khyāl in Rāg Mishra Bhairavi (India, 1981) | Sulochana Yajurvedi Brahaspati & Inder Lal Dhandra | 9:52 |
| 4.4 | Solo Piece for the Vietnamese Zither Đàn Tranh (Paris, 1985) | Trân Quang Haï | 5:49 |
| 4.5 | Solo Piece for the Chinese Zither Zheng (Taiwan, 1979) | Liang Tsai-p'ing | 7:43 |
| 4.6 | Taqsīm [On the Arabian Lute Al-'ūd] (Iraq, 1983) | Munir Bahir | 6:42 |
| 4.7 | Music of the Mizmār Baladī Ensemble (Upper Egypt, 1977) | Mizmār Baladī Ensemble | 8:29 |
| 4.8 | Madīḥ Nabawī (Praise of the Prophet) (Mauretania, 1978) | Munnina Mint Eleya & Her Griot Ensemble | 10:30 |
| 4.9 | Historical Song [Sung to the Bowl Lyre Endongo] (Kampala, Uganda, 1983) | Evaristo Muyinda | 3:41 |
| 4.10 | Mama Elisa (Malaŵi, 1981) | Donald Kachamba’s Kwela Band | 3:13 |
| 4.11 | Introductoy Song [Sung and Played on the Bridge Harp Seperewa] (Ghana, 1999) | Kwame Osei Korankye | 3:08 |
| 4.12 | Music for Kete Drums (Köln, Germany, 1999) | The Bambala Traditional Group | 4:56 |