As the research literature in all disciplines grows and communication technologies improve, researchers in all disciplines are becoming increasingly specialised and their research is becoming increasingly collaborative. Experts from different areas and with different skills often work together to answer questions of common interest.
This means that an individual academic's research performance depends not only on so-called objective indicators such as publications and membership of editorial boards, but also on the network of researchers with whom he or she collaborates in different team formations, and on the quality of those working relationships.
Below are some links to the websites of researchers whose research I value and with whom I have a good working relationship. In many cases we have collaborated on research projects, conference organisation, review of journal or conference submissions, advising on research planning, or supervising and examining theses.
This page is also intended to give a quick overview of contemporary international research and researchers in systematic musicology and especially music psychology. As such it might be a resource for students looking for a supervisor for a research project in those areas.
Many musicologists work in more than one area of musicology. In the following, I have assigned each colleague to what I perceive to be their main area, and grouped them as follows:
Music
psychology
Music acoustics and psychoacoustics
Computational musicology
Mathematical music theory
Music physiology, medicine, and neurosciences
Music performance
Music philosophy, sociology, and aesthetics
Music theory, analysis, semiotics, composition, and history
Music education
Music therapy and psychoanalysis
Popular music and jazz
Ethnomusicology
Music
psychology (including perception, cognition, development)
(see also music physiology, medicine, and neurosciences)
Australia: Emery Schubert (University of New South Wales, Sydney), Catherine (Kate) Stevens (University of Western Sydney)
Austria: Christian Allesch (Universität Salzburg), Oliver Vitouch (Universität Klagenfurt)
Belgium: Irène Deliège (Université de Liège)
Britain: Ian Cross (Cambridge University), Jane Ginsborg (Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester), David Hargreaves (Roehampton University), Alexandra Lamont (Keele University), Neil McAngus Todd (Manchester University), John Sloboda (Keele University), Roger Watt (University of Stirling)
Canada: Albert Bregman (McGill, Montréal), Annabel Cohen (University of Prince Edward Island), Lola Cuddy (Queen's, Kingston), Daniel Levitin (McGill, Montréal), Stephen McAdams (McGill, Montréal), Caroline Palmer (McGill, Montréal), William Forde Thompson (University of Toronto at Mississauga)
Estonia: Jaan Ross (University of Tartu, Estonia)
France: Emmanuel Bigand (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon), Barbara Tillmann (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon)
Germany: Wolfgang Auhagen (Universität Halle), Herbert Bruhn (Universität Flensburg), Gunter Kreutz (Universität Oldenburg), Roland Eberlein (Universität Köln), Reinhard Kopiez (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover), Andreas Lehmann (Hochschule für Musik Würzburg), Albrecht Schneider (Universität Hamburg), Hans Strasburger (Universität München)
Italy: Mario Baroni (Università di Bologna), Anna Rita Addessi (Università di Bologna)
Japan: Mayumi Adachi (Hokkaido University, Sapporo)
Netherlands: Dirk-Jan Povel (University of Nijmegen), Piet Vos (University of Nijmegen)
Sweden: Alf Gabrielsson (University of Uppsala), Patrik Juslin (University of Uppsala)
USA: Jamshed Bharucha (Tufts, Medford MA), Robert Gjerdingen (Northwestern, Evanston IL), Andrea Halpern (Bucknell, Lewisburg PA), David Huron (Ohio State, Columbus), Roger Kendall (University of California at Los Angeles), Carol Krumhansl (Cornell, Ithaca NY)
Music
acoustics and psychoacoustics
Australia: Katherine Legge (Latrobe University, Bendigo, Victoria), Neville Fletcher (Australian National University, Canberra), William Noble (University of New England, Armidale), Joe Wolfe (University of New South Wales, Sydney)
Austria: Matthias Bertsch (Musikuniversität Wien), Robert Höldrich (Kunstuniversität Graz)
Canada: Caroline Traube (Université de Montréal)
France: Michèle Castellengo (Laboratoire d'Acoustique Musicale, Paris)
Germany: Jobst Fricke (Universität Köln), Ernst Terhardt (TU München)
Poland: Janina Fyk (Zielona Gora), Andrzej Miskiewicz (Chopin Academy of Music, Warsaw), Andrzej Rakowski (Chopin Academy of Music, Warsaw)
Sweden: Anders Askenfelt (KTH Stockholm), Johan Sundberg (KTH Stockholm), Sten Ternström (KTH Stockholm)
USA: Thomas Rossing (Northern Illinois)
Austria: Gerhard Eckel (Kunstuniversität Graz), Werner Goebl (Universität Linz), Gerhard Widmer (Universität Linz)
Belgium: Marc Leman (University of Ghent)
Britain: Nicholas Bailey (University of Glasgow), Alan Marsden (Lancaster University), Tillman Weyde (City, London), Geraint Wiggins (Goldsmiths, London)
Canada: Ichiro Fujinaga (McGill, Montréal)
Finland: Jukka Louhivuori (University of Jyväskylä), Petri Toiviainen (University of Jyväskylä), Tuomas Eerola (University of Jyväskylä)
Greece: Emilios Cambouropoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Netherlands: Peter Desain (University of Nijmegen), Henkjan Honing (University of Amsterdam), Anja Volk (University of Utrecht)
Turkey: Ali Cenk Gedik (Izmir Institute of Technology)
USA: Douglas Keislar, Eleanor Selfridge-Field (Stanford, Palo Alto, CA)
Austria: Harald Fripertinger (Universität Graz)
Germany: Thomas Noll (TU Berlin)
Switzerland: Guerino Mazzola (Universität Zürich)
Music
physiology, medicine, and neurosciences
(see also Music psychology)
Austria: Eugen Gallasch (Medizinische Universität Graz), Annemarie Seither-Preisler (Universität Graz)
Britain: Stephan Koelsch (University of Sussex)
Germany: Eckart Altenmüller (HMT Hannover), Christian Kaernbach (Universität Kiel)
Canada: Isabelle Peretz (Université de Montréal), Robert Zatorre (Montreal Neurological Institute)
USA: Don Hodges (University of Texas at San Antonio), Juan G. Roederer (University of Fairbanks, Alaska)
Australia: Diana Weekes (Elder Conservatorium of Music, Adelaide), Dianna Kenny (Sydney University and Conservatorium)
Britain: Eric Clarke (Oxford University), Jane Davidson (University of Sheffield), Graham Welch (Institute of Education, University of London), Aaron Williamon (Royal College of Music, London)
Finland: Matti Raekallio (Sibelius Academy, Helsinki)
Sweden: Anders Friberg (KTH Stockholm)
Switzerland: Hubert Eiholzer (Conservatorio della svizzera italiana)
USA: Bruno Repp (Haskins Labs, New Haven CT)
Music
philosophy, sociology, and aesthetics
Austria: Andreas Dorschel (Kunstuniversität Graz), Johann Götschl (Universität Graz), Werner Jauk (Universität Graz)
Germany: Holger Höge (Universität Oldenburg)
Music
theory, analysis, semiotics, composition, and history
Australia: Greg Schiemer (University of Wollongong)
Austria: Federico Celestini (Universität Graz), Gerd Kühr (Kunstuniversität Graz), Peter Revers (Kunstuniversität Graz), Christian Utz (Kunstuniversität Graz)
Britain: Nicholas Cook (Royal Holloway, London), Graham Hair (Glasgow University), George Nicholson (Sheffield University)
Canada: William E. Caplin (McGill, Montréal), Sean Ferguson (McGill, Montréal), Jean-Jacques Nattiez (Université de Montréal)
USA: Tim Koozin (University of Houston), Steve Larson (University of Oregon), Fred Lerdahl (Columbia University NY), Justin London (Carleton College, Northfield, MN), Elisabeth W. Marvin (Eastman, Rochester NY), David Temperley (Eastman, Rochester NY)
Austria: Bernhard Gritsch (Kunstuniversität Graz), Adina Mornell (Kunstuniversität Graz), Gerhard Wanker (Kunstuniversität Graz)
Britain: Susan Hallam (Institute of Education, University of London), Malcolm Troup (City University, London)
Germany: Wilfried Gruhn (Mhs Freiburg i. Br.)
Italy: Michele Biasutti (Università di Padova)
Portugal: Graça Mota (Escola Superior de Educação, Porto)
USA: Eugenia Costa-Giomi (University of Texas at Austin), Gary McPherson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Music
therapy and psychoanalysis
Australia: Denise Grocke (University of Melbourne)
Germany: Bernd Oberhoff (Universität Kassel)
Austria: Franz Kerschbaumer (Kunstuniversität Graz)
Canada: Philip Tagg (Université de Montréal)
Germany: Jan Hemming (Universität Halle)
UK: Nicola Dibben (Sheffield University)
USA: Scott Lipscomb (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL)
Austria: Gerd Grupe (Kunstuniversität Graz), Ursula Hemetek (Musikuniversität Wien)
Australia: Margaret Kartomi (Monash University)
England: Jonathan Stock (Sheffield University)
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Richard Parncutt, Department of Musicology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Graz