Music Performance Research in Graz

The Centre for Systematic Musicology in Graz
offers teaching and research supervision in
music performance research
in the Musikologie program.

Relevant publications

Parncutt, R. (Ed.) (2009). Part 7 Music performance. In S. Hallam, I. Cross, & M. Thaut (Eds.), Oxford handbook of music psychology (pp. 321-400). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Parncutt, R. (2007). Can researchers help artists? Music performance research for music students. Music Performance Research, 1, 13-50. pdf 0.1 MB

Parncutt, R. (2006). Applicazioni educative della ricerca sull'esecuzione musicale (Educational applications of scientific research on music performance). In M. Biasutti (Ed.), Psicologia e educazione musicale (pp. 87-108). Lecce: Pensa Multimedia. pdf 0.2 MB

Parncutt, R. (2003). Accents and expression in piano performance. In K. W. Niemöller (Ed.), Perspektiven und Methoden einer Systemischen Musikwissenschaft (Festschrift Fricke) (pp. 163-185). Frankfurt/Main, Germany: Peter Lang. pdf 0.6 MB

Goebl, W., & Parncutt, R. (2003). Asynchrony versus intensity as cues for melody perception in chords and real music. In R. Kopiez, A. C. Lehmann, I. Wolther, & C. Wolf (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (Hannover, Germany, 8-13 September 2003) (pp. 376-380). Hannover: Institute for Research in Music Education. pdf 0.2 MB

Parncutt, R., & McPherson, G. E. (Eds., 2002). The science and psychology of music performance: Creative strategies for teaching and learning. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0-19-513810-4. oup info abstracts and reviews

Parncutt, R., & Troup, M. (2002). Piano. In R. Parncutt & G. E. McPherson (Eds.), Science and psychology of music performance: Creative strategies for teaching and learning (pp. 285-302). New York: Oxford University Press. pdf 1.0 MB

Goebl, W., & Parncutt, R. (2002). The influence of relative intensity on the perception of onset asynchronies. In C. Stevens, D. Burnham, G. McPherson, E. Schubert, & J. Renwick (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (Sydney, Australia, 2002) (pp. 613–616). Adelaide: Causal Productions. pdf 0.1 MB

Parncutt, R., Sloboda, J. A., & Clarke, E. F. (1999). Interdependence of right and left hands in sight-read, written, and rehearsed fingerings of parallel melodic piano music. Australian Journal of Psychology, 51 (Special Issue on "Music as a Brain and Behavioural System"), 204-210. pdf 0.9 MB

Sloboda, J. A., Clarke, E. F., Parncutt, R., & Raekallio, M. (1998). Determinants of fingering choice in piano sight-reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 24 (1), 185-203.

Parncutt, R. (1998). Recording piano fingering in live performance. In B. Enders & N. Knolle (Eds.), KlangArt-Kongress (Osnabrück, Germany, 1995) (pp. 263-268). Osnabrück: Universitätsverlag Rasch. pdf 0.3 MB

Parncutt, R., Sloboda, J. A., Clarke, E. F., Raekallio, M., & Desain, P. (1997). An ergonomic model of keyboard fingering for melodic fragments. Music Perception, 14, 341-382. pdf 0.3 MB

Clarke, E. F., Parncutt, R., Raekallio, M., & Sloboda, J. A. (1997). Talking fingers: An interview study of pianists’ views on fingering. Musicae Scientiae, 1, 87-107. pdf 1.0 MB

Parncutt, R. (1997). Modeling piano performance: Physics and cognition of a virtual pianist. In T. Rikakis (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (Thessaloníki, Greece, 1997) (pp. 15-18). San Francisco, CA: International Computer Music Association. pdf 0.1 MB

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