Current research projects:

• WEAVE-Projekt E-LAUTE: Electronic Linked Annotated Unified Tablature Edition – The Lute in the German-Speaking Area 1450–1550 (FWF, DFG, SNF), since 1/3/2023

Finished research projects: 

Research focus: instrumental music and humanistic literature, instrumental music and humanistic education, loci communes practices and improvisation, poetic and socio-cultural spaces of instrumental music.

Results: book Kateryna Schöning, Loci communes und Tabulaturen des 16. Jahrhunderts im deutschsprachigen Raum, ed. by Birgit Lodes, Vienna: Hollitzer 2025 (Wiener Forum für ältere Musikgeschichte 16), ISBN: 978-3-99094-610-7

• FWF-Project (Lise Meitner, DOI: 10.55776/M2062): 16th-Century Soloistic Instrumental Music in the South German Cultural Region, University Vienna, Department of Musicology, postdoc-position, head of project (2016–2019)
  

Research focus: Sketches and reconstructions of instrumental music from the manuscripts of the South German region, genuine instrumental composition in the context of the media change (manuscript – print), practical-didactic contexts.

• Project of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: An unknown tablature from the collection of Carl Ferdinand Becker (1804 – 1877): two urban musical cultures in dialogue, Institute of Musicology, Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig, Germany, postdoc-position, head of project (1/10/2018 – 31/12/2018)
  

Research focus: Keyboard tablatures in Central Germany around 1550: tradition, paleography and function; the reception instrumental music of 16th century in the 19th century (Becker).

• Project of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Instrumental Genres from the 14th to the 16th-Centuries: Improvisation – Style – Genre, Hochschule für Musik und Theater „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ Leipzig, Germany, postdoc-position, head of project (1/10/2008 – 30/9/2010)
  

Research focus: Concepts of style and genre in the reception of music before 1600, analytical methods.

Finished teaching projects:

• Music in the East, Duration: Summer Semester 2014 – summer semester 2015, Institute of Musicology, Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig, Germany (conception and realisation)

• Music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Today, Duration: winter semester 2004/2005 - summer semester 2006, State I.-P.-Kotljarevski University of Arts, Charkiw, Ukraine (conception and realisation)

Collaborations in finished research projects:

• DFG project: History of Science and Politics of the past. Musicology in Research and Teaching in early post-war Germany, Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim, Germany, research staff (2010 – 2013) DFG-Webpage

Research focus: Methods of musicology at the universities of the former GDR and politics, persons and fates.