ABSTRACT
Sound recordings have been widely used to make oral musical traditions known to scholars, students, and broader audiences who are interested in the world's musics — for example, the music of the Sami in the most northern parts of Europe. Musical ‘editions’ of this modern type, which are listed and reviewed in journals, are presented with differing degrees of verbal interpretation (depending on whether the editors have commercial or scholarly aims). These range from mere lists of items or brief notes to descriptive booklets accompanying the recordings, which may include musical examples in notation.
