Lucie Rault (also known as Lucie Rault-Leyrat) is an eminent ethnomusicologist residing in Paris. She is master of conference in the Museum of Natural History, and was chief of the department of ethnomusicology of the Musée de l'Homme.
La Cithare zheng 520 p., Thèse de doctorat de 3ème cycle, Université de Paris X Nanterre, 1973.La Cithare chinoise zheng : un vol d'oies sauvages sur les cordes de soie, Editions du Léopard d'Or, Paris, 318 p. ISBN 978-2863770597. This work was awarded the Prix Stanislas Julien from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres.Musiques de la tradition chinoise, (Paris, Actes-Sud/cité de la musique, coll. Musiques du monde, 2000) 18x14 cm, 192 p. + CD (Diapason d'Or recipient)Instruments de musique du monde, (Paris, Hervé de La Martinière, coll. Patrimoine, 2000) 25x31cm, pp232, ISBN 273243678XMusical Instruments: A Worldwide Survey of Traditional Music-making Musical Instruments: A Worldwide Survey of Traditional Music-making, Thames & Hudson Ltd (November 6, 2000), ISBN 978-0500510353Vom Klang der Welt. Vom Echo der Vorfahren zu den Musikinstrumenten der Neuzeit, Frederking & Thaler (2000), ISBN 3894054239 
