Mark Reybrouck
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Mark Reybrouck studied physical education, physical therapy and musicology at the University of Leuven (1970-1978). In 1980 he was awarded the Floris Van der Muerenprijs by the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts. In his doctoral dissertation (1995) he examined the relation between music and semiotics with a major focus on musical pragmatics. In 1996 he was appointed associate professor and in 2015 full professor at the department of musicology of the University of Leuven. He was or is actually a member of the Cooperative for Systematic and Comparative Musicology, The International Project on Musical Signification, The International Project on Biosemiotic Studies, The Semiotic Society of America, the Flemish Division of the International Society for Music Education, and the Society for Interdisciplinary Musicology. In 2018 he retired from KU Leuven and was appointed guest professor at the University of Ghent.
His major research interests are interdisciplinary in their claims with an attempt to bring together insights from the fields of psychology, biology, semiotics and music. His actual research agenda concerns listening strategies and musical sense-making with a major focus on musical semantics, biosemiotics as applied to music, and music and brain studues. At a theoretical level he is involved in foundational work about music cognition and perception, especially the biological roots of musical epistemology and the embodied and enactive approach to dealing with music. Besides this theoretical work, he has also been involved in empirical research on representational and metarepresentational strategies in music-listening tasks.
Mark Reybrouck published a lot of papers in internationally reviewed scientific journals and book chapters in books by internationally recognised scientific publishers. He is also author and editor of several books about listening strategies and cognitive strategies for musical sense-making, and edited volumes on musical semiotics and music and brain studies. He also figured in many scientific conferences inside and outside of Europe, both as contributor and as a conference organiser.
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