10 Facts About Richard Parncutt

Richard Parncutt has been professor of systematic musicology at Karl Franzens University Graz in Austria since 1998.

Richard Parncutt was a guest researcher under Ernst Terhardt, Johan Sundberg, Annabel Cohen, Al Bregman, Helga de la Motte-Haber and John Sloboda.

Richard Parncutt considers how we perceive successions of sounds, such as chord progressions.

Richard Parncutt's research has yielded testable predictions about the consonance and dissonance of musical sonorities.

Since 2008 Richard Parncutt has directed the Centre for Systematic Musicology at the University of Graz.

Richard Parncutt established the antiracist series Conference on Applied Interculturality Research in 2010.

Richard Parncutt has researched the role of music in the construction of migrant identities and the integration of migrant minorities.

Richard Parncutt suggested that a panel of scientists should decide whether a given individual had caused more than one million deaths.

Richard Parncutt later responded to criticism on his private homepage [1].

In 2012, based on an analysis of the global financial crisis, Richard Parncutt proposed a global wealth tax to stabilize and reduce national debts, finance official development assistance to alleviate global poverty, and finance projects to mitigate climate change.