Systematic Musicology: Concepts, methodology, empirical research -- Albrecht Schneider: Foundations of Systematic Musicology: a study in history and theory -- Oskar Elschek: Systematic Musicology - anachronism or challenge? : a perspective on disciplinary and scientific developments -- Marc Leman: Systematic Musicology at the crossroads of modern music research -- Rolf Inge Godøy: Reflections on chunking in music -- Daniel Müllensiefen, Geraint Wiggins, David Lewis: High-level feature descriptors and corpus-based musicology : techniques for modelling music cognition -- Klaus Frieler: Metrical circle map and metrical Markov chains -- Christiane Neuhaus: Auditory Gestalt perception and the dissociation between pitch and time : ERP studies on processing musical sequence structure -- Rolf Bader Efficient auditory coding of a xylophone bar -- Arne von Ruschkowski: Loudness war -- Markus Abel: Synchronization of organ pipes -- Andreas Beurmann, Albrecht Schneider: Acoustics of the harpsichord : a case study -- Kai Lothwesen: Systematic Musicology and music education : an empirical investigation into research topics in German music education -- Comparative Musicology and Ethnomusicology: Bruno Nettl: Comparative study and comparative musicology : comments on disciplinary history -- Tiago de Oliveira Pinto: Music and the Tropics : on goals and achievements of Ethnomusicology in Brazil -- Jukka Louhivuri: Lutheran hymn singing in African context : Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren vs. Rena Morena wa matla! -- Gerhard Kubik: Zur Mathematik und Geschichte der afrikanischen time-line-Formeln -- Ulrich Morgenstern: Der Skobarja von Velikie Lukje und angrenzende instrumental-vokale Formen im Gebiet Tver' (ethnische und ethnomusikalische Identität)