Table of Content -- Introduction: Systematic Musicology and Empirical Research -- References -- Albrecht Schneider, Arne von Ruschkowski: Techno, Decibels, and Politics: an Empirical Study of Modern Dance Music Productions, Sound Pressure Levels, and 'Loudness Perception' -- Daniel Müllensiefen, Geraint Wiggins: Polynomial Functions as a Representation of Melodic Phrase Contour -- Klaus Frieler, Frank Höger, Jörg Korries: Meloworks - An Integrated Retrieval, Analysis and E-learning Platform for Melody Research -- Albrecht Schneider, Valeri Tsatsishvili: Perception of Musical Intervals at Very Low Frequencies: Some Experimental Findings -- Robert Mores: Nasality in Musical Sounds - a few Intermediate Results -- Florian Pfeifle: Air Modes in Stringed Lute-like Instruments from Africa and China -- Tim Ziemer: Psychoacoustic Effects in Wave Field Synthesis Applications -- Orie Takada: Sound Radiation Patterns in Classical Singing Styles -- Andreas Beurmann, Albrecht Schneider: Some Observations on a Stein-Conrad Hammerflügel from 1793 -- Rolf Bader, Albrecht Schneider: Playing "Live" at the Star-Club: Reconstructing the Room Acoustics of a Famous Music Hall -- Till Strauf: "You Dont́ See the Stitching" - Some Comments on Stylistic Diversity in Rock. Using the Example of Jethro Tull -- Jan Clemens Moeller: Comments about Joni Mitchellś Composing Techniques and Guitar Style -- Ulrich Morgenstern: Egalitarianism and Elitism in Ethnomusicology and Folk Music Scholarship -- Rolf Bader: Buddhism, Animism, and Entertainment in Cambodian Melismatic Chanting smot - History and Tonal System -- Rytis Ambrazevičius: Concerning the Question of "Loosely-Knit" Roughly Equidistant Scale in Traditional Music -- List of contributors to this volume.