PD Dr. Kateryna Schöning

 Musicologist and pianist / harpsichordist

• Member of research staff (senior scientist, permanent) at the University of Vienna, Department of Musicology
• Head of digital edition project E-LAUTE
• Basso continuo performer (harpsichord, organ)

    Current research fields in the musicology:

• Digital Humanities; digital editing of music
• Interdisciplinary research of instrumental music before 1600, incl. the relationships between music and humanism, music and language, music and other arts in Central Europe
• Phenomena of the manifold interplay between manuscript and print culture before 1600
• Music notation and ex tempore practices; tablatures in the 16th–19th c.; notation and diagrammatics in the 16 c.
• Music and interdisciplinary contexts in Alba amicorum (Stammbüchern) in the 16th c.
• Music and music transmission around 1800 and in the 19th c.
• Reception of 16th century instrumental music in private collections: Carl Ferdinand Becker (1804–1877)