Teaching at the former Centre for Systematic Musicology
Teaching addressed various areas of systematic musicology with a focus on music psychology, and took place within the framework of the Musicology Graz programme: an inter-university programme between the University of Graz and the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
Our teaching was
- Research-based, leading international research was published by the lecturers themselves;
- Socially relevant, with various implications for musical performance practice, musical listening habits, music business, music teaching, music therapy and music medicine;
- Interdisciplinary, involving the humanities, natural sciences, and practically orientated disciplines; and
- Bilingual, English and/or German (both languages could be chosen for examinations).
The Graz musicology program was one of a handful of highly interdisciplinary curricula in Graz that brought together the contrasting epistemologies of the humanities, natural sciences and practically orientated disciplines. Outlines for courses taught by individual members of the centre can be found in Uni Graz Online.
Supervised theses
2018
Maximilian Burkard: Theoretical discussion and empirical replication of a psychological study of musical meaning (supervisor: Parncutt)
Michael Eder: Music, repetition and time perception (supervisor: Parncutt)
Florian Schriebl: The scary side of sound: A musical analysis of parameters of fear in film, music and computer games (supervisor: Parncutt)
Julián Obando Rodríguez (Department of Musicology, University of Vienna): Música e identificación del pueblo indígena Muisca en Colombia (supervisor: Brabec)
2017
Lukas Auer: Evenness thresholds and perceptional hysteresis in gradually changing sound sequences (supervisor: Parncutt)
2016
Nina Nentwig: The influence of background music on `well-being when people eat alone (supervisor: Parncutt)
Sabrina Sattmann: Chills in response to self-selected music: Emotions, associations, and musical structure (supervisor: Parncutt)
Eva Maria Matlschweiger: The effect of choral singing, playing in a brass band, playing in a theatre group and listening to music in a concert on well-being (supervisor: Parncutt) (Winner of a humanities prize for excellent publications / GEWI-Preis für hervorragende Publikationen)
Carolina Rojas Ricaurte (Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Vienna): Educación musical para niños y jóvenes, hacia una transformación social en Colombia (supervisor: Brabec)
2014
Jakob Götz (Institute of Musicology, University of Leipzig): Dealing with music as a means of social positioning (supervisor: Parncutt)
2013
Marc-Andre Günther: Objective and subjective noise exposure in the classroom among Styrian teachers (commissioned study by the Environmental Agency and the Environmental Education Centre of the Province of Styria) (supervisor: Seither-Preisler)
2012
Nicole Starl: The influence of test instruction on the classification of ambiguous acoustic stimuli (supervisor: Seither-Preisler)
Elisabeth Wipfler: The influence of noise on the classification of ambiguous acoustic stimuli (supervisor: Seither-Preisler)
Mareike Wieser: The influence of music on intelligence, attention and creativity (supervisor: Seither-Preisler)
Katharina Molterer: Special features of auditory information processing in music experience and dyslexia (supervisor: Seither-Preisler)
2011
Manuela Marin: Emotion in unfamiliar music: Psychological and psychophysiological responses to Western and Persian music by Western and Persian listeners (supervisor: Parncutt)
Sonja Zechner: Musicians in the audience. A qualitative study on live concert experiences (supervisor: Parncutt)
Stéphanie Lüders: Perception of closure in chord progressions (supervisor: Parncutt)
David Kalcher: Differences in auditory information processing in reading and spelling difficulties (supervisor: Seither-Preisler)
Tanja Tösch: Short-term plasticity of tonal hearing through auditory training (supervisor: Seither-Preisler)
Christoph Ajd: The effectiveness of auditory and morphemic training in dyslexia (supervisor: Seither-Preisler)
Marlies Baier: The influence of active music-making on school performance and attention (supervisor: Seither-Preisler)
2010
Gottfried Reichweger: The perception of pitch salience in musical chords of different tone types (supervisor: Parncutt)
Christine Meditz: The influence of pitch length on the perception of ambiguous sound patterns in musicians and non-musicians (supervisor: Seither-Preisler)
Birgit Lasinger: Pitch perception of children with different levels of musical education (supervisor: Seither-Preisler)
Karin Rieger: Fundamental and overtone hearing in pupils of different ages (supervisor: Seither-Preisler)
Eva Artner: Correlation between the type of sound perception and the preferred musical instrument in professional musicians (supervisor: Seither-Preisler)
2009
Angelika Dorfer: The role of music in intercultural integration - A qualitative study in Graz (supervisor: Parncutt)
2019
Sabrina Turker (DOC team scholarship holder of the OeAW and then Humbodt scholarship holder): Exploring the neuroanatomical and behavioural correlates of foreign language aptitude (co-supervisor: Seither-Preisler)
Helena Dukic: Exploring the narrative nature of music: Comparing listeners' imagery with analysis of musical structure (supervisor: Parncutt)
2017
Martin Anton Schmid: Basic chord tones in different harmonic contexts: Historical, systematic and empirical investigations of contextual chord root multivalence (co-supervisor: Richard Parncutt)
2013
Malik Sharif (KUG Graz): Charles Seeger and Twenty-First-Century musicologies: A critical assessment of his meta-musicological thinking (co-supervisor: Parncutt)
2011
Barbara Wilfling (Scholarship holder of the Young Researchers Fund and the University Council of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz): Psychoacoustic effects and neuronal correlates of individual sound perception: auditory gestalt perception vs. detailed auditory analysis based on subjective pitch perception (supervisor: Seither-Preisler)
2010
Sarah Kettner (University of Vienna): Narcissism and its significance for the psyche of a performing musician (co-supervisor: Parncutt)
Alfred Eisler (KUG Graz): Formative influencing factors for the musical expressiveness and improvisation characteristics of the guitarist Karl Ratzer (co-supervisor: Parncutt)