Christoph Reuter
Christoph Reuter (born 28 November 1968) is a German University professor for systematic musicology at the University of Vienna.
life
Born in Duisburg, Reuter studied musicology at the University of Cologne, received his doctorate summa cum laude in 1996 and his habilitation in 2002. He has held guest professorships or teaching positions at several universities (University of Vienna, Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar), and has also been a managing partner of a Cologne-based internet agency since 2000. Since 2008, Reuter has been university professor for systematic musicology at the University of Vienna.
Scientific activity
His research interests include musical acoustics, music physiology and psychological aspects of music perception as well as music-related internet/software projects. Examples of his manifold studies in the field of systematic musicology are investigations on sound colour perception, on the Variophon, on music automatons, on perception of unpleasant noises and on musical dice games..
Memberships
Reuter is a board member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie (DGM) and in 2006-2008 was the editor of the yearbook of the Society for Music Psychology. He is a member of the board and head of the working group of the "Wissenschaft" in the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Musik und Medizin (ÖGfMM). He is also a member of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), the Consulting Boards of Musicae Scientiae, the Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft (ÖGMW), the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM), the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Akustik (Dega), the Internationalen Arbeitskreis für systematische Musikwissenschaft (IASM) as well as the Gesellschaft für selbstspielende Musikinstrumente (GSM)
Publications
- Der Einschwingvorgang nichtperkussiver Musikinstrumente.[1] Lang, Frankfurt 1995 (ISBN 3-631-49437-8)
- Die auditive Diskrimination von Orchesterinstrumenten.[2] Diss. Lang, Frankfurt 1996 (ISBN 3-631-30886-8)
- Klangfarbe und Instrumentation.[3] Habil. Lang, Frankfurt 2002 (ISBN 3-631-50272-9)
- together with Wolfgang Auhagen: Kompendium Musikalische Akustik. (Kompendien Musik 16), Laaber, Laaber 2013 (ISBN 978-3-89007-736-9)
- Reuter, Christoph, Enders, Bernd; Jacobi, Rolf: Lexikon Musikautomaten.[4] (Encyclopedia of Mechanical Musical Instruments)(German/English), CD-ROM, Schott, Mainz 2000.
References
- Der Einschwingvorgang nichtperkussiver Musikinstrumente : Auswertung physikalischer und psychoakustischer Messungen on Stanford Libraries
- Die auditive Diskrimination von Orchesterinstrumenten : Verschmelzung und Heraushörbarkeit von Instrumentalklangfarben im Ensemblespiel on WorldCat
- Klangfarbe und Instrumentation : Geschichte - Ursachen - Wirkungen on WorldCat
- Lexikon Musikautomaten : die Welt der selbstspielenden Musikinstrumente = Encyclopedia of mechanical musical instruments on WorldCat