Studien zur Musikarchäologie XI

These conference proceedings contain an obituary for Ellen Hickmann [1934-2017], a foreword by the editors, seventeen papers on musical archaeology [thirteen on China, two on antiquity, two on Scotland], and a list of authors. The contributions deal with bells from the grave of Marquis Yi of Zeng, drums from the Warring States period, lithophones of the Song dynasty, the musical instruments from the royal tomb at Liangdai of the Zhou dynasty and from the Marquis's tomb at Guojiamiao, a set of lithophones of the 8th to 5th century B.C., the development from ling bells to niu bells, zithers termed qin and se of the Zhou dynasty, the statue of a zither player in the Musée Guimet in Paris, bells with a just intonation from the 5th-century B.C. grave at Zenghouyi, the relationship between qin and se zithers, the se and qin specimens found in the grave of Marquis Liu He of the Han dynasty, and the niu bells from the aforementioned Marquis's tomb at Guojiamiao. The papers on Europe deal with auloi from queen Amanishakheto's pyramid, the ancient soundscape of Sparta, and a Scottish Early Iron Age lyre bridge from an archaeological and contextual point of view.