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Christoph Reuter (born 28 November 1968) is a German University professor for
systematic musicology Systematic musicology is an umbrella term, used mainly in Central Europe, for several subdisciplines and paradigms of musicology. "Systematic musicology has traditionally been conceived of as an interdisciplinary science, whose aim it is to explor ...
at the
University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...
.


life

Born in
Duisburg Duisburg () is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine and the Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruhr Region, Duisburg is the 5th largest city in Nor ...
, Reuter studied musicology at the
University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...
, received his
doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''l ...
''summa cum laude'' in 1996 and his
habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...
in 2002. He has held guest professorships or teaching positions at several universities (University of Vienna,
Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar The University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar (in German: Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar) is an institution of music in Weimar, Germany. The Hochschule Franz Liszt, who spent a great deal of his life in Weimar, encouraged the founding of ...
), 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 Musical acoustics or music acoustics is a multidisciplinary field that combines knowledge from physics, psychophysics, organology (classification of the instruments), physiology, music theory, ethnomusicology, signal processing and instrument buil ...
, 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 ' (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 ' (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 The ''Gesellschaft für Musikforschung'' (GfM) is a professional association of musicologists and institutes active in study, research and teaching in Germany. It has over 1600 members. The association is based in Kassel, Hesse. History The soc ...
'' (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''. Lang, Frankfurt 1995 () * ''Die auditive Diskrimination von Orchesterinstrumenten''. Diss. Lang, Frankfurt 1996 () * ''Klangfarbe und Instrumentation''. Habil. Lang, Frankfurt 2002 () * together with
Wolfgang Auhagen Wolfgang Auhagen (born in 1953) is a German musicologist. Life Born in Hamburg, Auhagen studied musicology, art history and philosophy at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 1973 until 1982. There he was awarded his doctorate with the ...
: ''Kompendium Musikalische Akustik''. (Kompendien Musik 16), Laaber, Laaber 2013 () * Reuter, Christoph, Enders, Bernd; Jacobi, Rolf: ''Lexikon Musikautomaten''. (Encyclopedia of Mechanical Musical Instruments)(German/English), CD-ROM, Schott, Mainz 2000. * Reuter, C., Czedik-Eysenberg, I., Siddiq, S., & Oehler, M. (2018) Formant Distances and the Similarity Perception of Wind Instrument Timbres. In: R. Parncutt, & S. Sattmann (Eds.): Proceedings of ICMPC15/ESCOM10 (p. 367-371). Graz: University of Graz. * Reuter, Christoph; Siddiq, Saleh: The colourful life of timbre spaces - Timbre concepts from early ideas to meta-timbre space and beyond. In: Clemens Wöllner, Clemens (Ed.): Body, Sound and Space in Music and Beyond Multimodal Explorations. Sempre Studies in the Psychology of Music. Routledge, London/New York 2017, p. 150-167. * Reuter, C. (2018). Commentary on "An Exploratory Study of Western Orchestration: Patterns through History" by S.H. Chon, D. Huron, & D. DeVlieger. Empirical Musicology Review 12(3-4), 160-171. doi: dx.doi.org/10.18061/emr.v12i3-4.5992 * Reuter, Christoph: The role of formant positions and micro-modulations in blending and partial masking of musical instruments. In:
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America The ''Journal of the Acoustical Society of America'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of acoustics. It is published by the Acoustical Society of America and the editor-in-chief is James F. Lynch (Woods Hole Oceanog ...
(JASA), Vol. 126,4, 2009, p. 2237. * Jenny, C., Reuter, C.: Usability of Individualized Head-Related Transfer Functions in Virtual Reality: Empirical Study With Perceptual Attributes in Sagittal Plane Sound Localization. JMIR Serious Games 2020;8(3):e17576, doi: 10.2196/17576. * Bertsch, M., Reuter, C., Czedik-Eysenberg, I., Berger, A., Olischar, M., Bartha-Doering, L. and Giordano, V. (2020): The "Sound of Silence" in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit-Listening to Speech and Music inside an Incubator. Frontiers in Psychology 11:1055. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01055 * Starcke, K., von Georgi, R., Tiihonen, T. M., Laczika, K.-F., & Reuter, C. (2019): Don’t drink and chill: Effects of alcohol on subjective and physiological reactions during music listening and their relationships with personality and listening habits. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 142, 25–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.06.001 * Thiesen, F. C., Kopiez, R., Reuter, C., & Czedik-Eysenberg, I. (2019). A snippet in a snippet: Development of the Matryoshka principle for the construction of very short musical stimuli (plinks). Musicae Scientiae, 102986491882021. https://doi.org/10.1177/1029864918820212 * Reuter, C. (2018). Commentary on "An Exploratory Study of Western Orchestration: Patterns through History" by S.H. Chon, D. Huron, & D. DeVlieger. Empirical Musicology Review 12(3-4), 160-171. doi: dx.doi.org/10.18061/emr.v12i3-4.5992 Current list of publications''Current list of publications at https://musikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/team/reuter/publikationen/ ''
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References


External links

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Reuter on the Website of the University of Vienna
{{DEFAULTSORT:Reuter, Christoph Academics of the University of Vienna 20th-century German musicologists 21st-century German musicologists 1968 births Living people People from Duisburg