Studien zur Musikarchäologie

These conference proceedings contain an obituary for the pianist and archaeologist Roberto Melini [1960-2013], a foreword by the editors, 13 papers, an index of contents of the CD-ROM, and a list of authors. The contributions are classified by the topics of idiophones [7], stringed instruments [1], aerophones [4], and reports [1]. In detail, the topics are bronze chime bells from a princely grave in the Duchy of Xu and from three tombs in Zhongli, China, clay rattles from Soria, Spain, musical problems in the Chinese Zhouli book, instruments with a definite temperament from the grave of Marquis Yi, the shape and function of bronze bells in archaic and classical Greece, chime bells with an inscription of Marquis Su, a subdivided Qin [Chinese cittern], the re-documentation of the Louvre aulos, a Late Bronze Age hoard of a musician from Boolybrien, Ireland, music of the pre-Hispanian Diaguita and Aconcagua Cultures in Chile, an aerophone made of a bird bone from the Aurignacian or Gravettian at Davant Pau, Spain, as well as the role of ancient Egyptian musical instruments for the revival of the musical heritage of Ancient Egypt.