Research and Teaching on the Origins of Music

The Centre for Systematic Musicology at the University of Graz
offers research supervision in the area of the origins of music,
including a new approach located at the interface between
pre- and perinatal psychology and systematic musicology.

Relevant publications

Parncutt, R. (in press). Prenatal and infant conditioning, the mother schema, and the origins of music and religion. Musicae Scientiae (Special issue on Music and Evolution, Ed. O. Vitouch & O. Ladinig) pdf

Parncutt, R. (2009). Prenatal development and the phylogeny and ontogeny of musical behaviour. In S. Hallam, I. Cross, & M. Thaut (Eds.), Oxford handbook of music psychology (pp. 219-228). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pdf

Parncutt, R. (2009). Prenatal “experience” and the phylogenesis and ontogenesis of music. In R. Haas & V. Brandes (Eds.), Music that works. Wien: Springer-Verlag. pdf

Parncutt, R., & Kessler, A. (2007). Musik als virtuelle Person (reprint). In B. Oberhoff & S. Leikert (Eds.), Die Psyche im Spiegel der Musik (pp. 203-251). Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag.

Parncutt, R., & Kessler, A. (2006). Musik als virtuelle Person. In R. Flotzinger (Ed.), Musik als... Ausgewählte Betrachtungsweisen (pp. 9-52). Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. pdf 0.3 MB

Parncutt, R. (2006). Prenatal development. In G. E. McPherson (Ed.), The child as musician (pp. 1-31). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. pdf 0.2 MB

Parncutt, R. (2005). Pränatale Erfahrung und die Ursprünge der Musik. In B. Oberhoff (Ed.), Die seelischen Wurzeln der Musik: Psychanalytische Erkundungen (pp. 21-40). Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag. pdf 0.1 MB

Parncutt, R. (1993). Prenatal experience and the origins of music. In T. Blum (Ed.), Prenatal perception, learning, and bonding (pp. 253-277). Berlin: Leonardo. pdf 0.9 MB