Systematic musicology

The Centre for Systematic Musicology

The Centre for Systematic Musicology was part of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Graz from 2009 to 2023. It was responsible for research and teaching in all areas of systematic musicology with a focus on music psychology. Interdisciplinary interactions included the "mother disciplines" of systematic musicology (psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, sociology, computer science, physics, philosophy) as well as other areas of musicology (ethnomusicology, historical musicology, jazz and popular music).

The centre was one of a handful of leading centres of its kind in Europe and the world. The centre contributed to international research through the establishment and maintenance of academic infrastructures and through synergetic collaboration between the humanities, natural sciences and musical practice. Members of the centre regularly published in leading international journals, gave keynote presentations at international conferences, and spoke to the media about their research. Publications of the centre were frequently cited.

In teaching, the centre offered musicology students the foundations of systematic musicology in all its subdisciplines plus a grounding in psychological research methods (experimental design and statistical analysis). Students practiced the art of writing a publishable empirical or theoretical article.

The members of the centre included the following (co-) authors of relevant publications: Erica Bisesi, Bernd Brabec de Mori, Markus Christiner, Zuzana Došeková (Cenkerová), Helena Dukić, Andreas Fuchs, Fabio Kaiser, Adrian Kempf, Martina Koegeler (-Abdi), Manuela M. Marin, Nils Meyer-Kahlen, Richard Parncutt, Ella (Daniela) Prem, Lazar Radovanovic, Daniel Reisinger, Hande Sağlam, Sabrina Sattmann, Peter Schneider, Andrea Schiavio, Annemarie Seither-Preisler, Sabrina Turker, Karim Weth, Martin Winter, Bettina Zeidler.

For further information on the history of the centre, see the centre's annual reports.