About us

Research has always been a key element of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis since it was explicitly founded as an “Institute for Teaching and Research in the Field of Early Music” in 1933.

Today the Research Department consists of permanent staff members, supported by colleagues from the teaching staff, and of research fellows of the projects. An important aim is to connect our research with current issues related to historical performance practice and thus to inform teaching at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis as well as to interact with the international community of musicology. These efforts are documented by numerous research projects and cooperations and are also aided by the scientific advisory board of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.

Daniele V. Filippi

Daniele V. Filippi


Forschungsteam «Polifonia Sforzesca»

daniele.notexisting@nodomain.comfilippi@fhnw.notexisting@nodomain.comch

Daniele V. Filippi obtained his Ph.D. in musicology in 2004 (Pavia/Cremona). After working in the book-publishing industry (Adelphi, Milan), in 2012–2014 he was a fellow at the Jesuit Institute of Boston College. Since 2014 he is an SNF research fellow at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Among his recent publications are “‘Audire missam non est verba missae intelligere…’: The Low Mass and the Motetti missales in Sforza Milan” (Journal of the Alamire Foundation 9/1, 2017), a guest-edited special issue of the Journal of Jesuit Studies (“Their Sound Hath Gone Forth into all the Earth”: Music and Sound in the Ministries of Early Modern Jesuits, 3/3, 2016), and the books Listening to Early Modern Catholicism: Perspectives from Musicology (co-edited with Michael Noone, Leiden, Brill, 2017) and Mapping the Motet in the Post-Tridentine Era (co-edited with Esperanza Rodríguez-García, Abingdon-New York, Routledge, 2019). For further information, see www.selvarmonica.com and scb.academia.edu/DanieleVFilippi.

Research project

Supported by the Maja Sacher Foundation