After completion of the project (2029), the data collected and generated by the team members will be made available in open access. The database of the project will mainly consist of bibliographies, source transcriptions, and numerous reproductions of various sources such as music in both manuscript and print, archival sources, and images.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Federico Lanzellotti: ‘“O notte, o cara notte”: The Depiction of Night in Händel’s Italian Operas’. Händel-Jahrbuch 72 (2026). Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2026 (forthcoming).

Federico Lanzellotti: ‘Women in the Shadows: Night Scenes for the First Viennese Female Singers (1701–1715)’. In Women in Italian Opera from Baroque to Enlightenment, eds Giovanni Polin and Ingrid Schraffl. Alessandria: Edizioni del Conservatorio “Vivaldi” di Alessandria, 2026, open-access peer-reviewed volume (forthcoming).

Jonathan Stark: ‘Let there be Night: Musicking after Sunset in Early Modern Europe’ (Conference Report). Journal of Eighteenth-Century Music, 2026 (forthcoming).

Hanna Walsdorf with Elizabeth Dobbin: ‘Magical Sleep in Lully’s Tragédie lyrique: The Case of Atys (1676)’. In Sleep Music | Schlafmusik, eds Katelijne Schiltz and Franziska Weigert, 2026 (forthcoming).

Hanna Walsdorf, ‘Inverted Traditions: Facts and Discourses Surrounding Dance and Music at the “Witches’ Sabbath”’. In The Blasphemous in Music and Sound, eds Ivan Ćurković, Ana Čizmić Grbić and Monika Jurić Janjik. Zagreb 2026 (forthcoming).

Hanna Walsdorf, ‘“Le fonds du Theatre s’ouure & monstre le Sabat”: Representations of witchcraft and popular magic on the early modern French stage’. In Marginalised Voices and Figures in French Festival Culture, 1500–1800, eds Marc Jaffré, Bram van Leuveren und Alexander Robinson. Turnhout: Brepols, 2026 (forthcoming).

Individual Conference Presentations

Jan Temme de Vries: ‘“Min fortiente og meget ærede Lærer Hr. Capelmester C. Ph. E. Bach”: The Legacy of Two Bachs in Denmark Exemplified in Their Devotional and Private Night Songs’. Conference The Night as Private Space: Darkness, Secrecy and Shadows in the Early Modern Period and Today, Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen, 11–12 December 2025.

Federico Lanzellotti: ‘Donne in ombra: scene notturne per le prime canterine viennesi (1701–1715)’. Conference Women in Italian Opera from Baroque to Enlightenment: Dramaturgy, Gesture, Music, Stage, Alessandria Conservatoire, 18 September 2025.

Helen Gebhart: Sounds, Signals and Songs: Tower Guards & Night Watchmen in Basel. Conference Listening to Disruption: Changing Acoustemologies in the Swiss Confederacy, c.1750–1815, Université de Genève, 23–24 June 2025.

Federico Lanzellotti: ‘“O notte, o cara notte”: The Depiction of Night in Händel’s Italian Operas’. Conference Händels italienische Texte und seine Textdichter. Internationale wissenschaftliche Konferenz zu den Händel-Festspielen in Halle an der Saale, Halle, 12 June 2025.

Jan Temme de Vries: ‘Nocturnal Piety. The Musical Performance and Theological Background of the Nightly Prayer in Leipzig during the 18th Century’. Kirchenhistorisches Kolloquium der Universitäten Basel und Zürich, Universität Zürich, 29 March 2025.

Federico Lanzellotti: ‘Spaces and Times of Nocturnal Musicking in Seventeenth-Century Bologna’. Themenvormittag «Stadt(t)räume»: Zur (abendlichen) Gestaltung von urbanen Räumen in der Frühen Neuzeit, Universität Zürich, Musikwissenschaftliches Institut, 15 March 2025.

Petra Zeller Dotlačilová: ‘Images of Horror: Visual Narrativity in Noverre’s Ballet Hypermnestre’. BSECS 54th Annual Conference Bodies and Embodiment, Pembroke College, University of Oxford, 8–10 Jan 2025.

Hanna Walsdorf with Elizabeth Dobbin (HEM Genève): ‘Magical Sleep in Lully’s Tragédie lyrique: The Case of Atys (1676)’. Conference Sleep Music | Schlafmusik, Universität Regensburg, Institut für Musikwissenschaft, 2–4 May 2024.

Themed Sessions and Roundtables

77. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, 6–9 October 2025:
Roundtable ‘Nocturnal Musicking across Europe: Reconsidering Temporal and Conceptual Boundaries’ (Helen Gebhart, Alexander Robinson, Jonathan Stark, Jan Temme de Vries)

NightMuse kick-off conference ‘Let there be Night: Musicking after Sunset in Early Modern Europe’, Universität Basel, 4–5 September 2025: 

• Helen Gebhart: ‘“Abends Concert. Nachts bey Hr. Sarasin”: Mapping Nocturnal Music-Making in 18th-Century Basel’
• Federico Lanzellotti: ‘“Chi vuol l’Iddio, vada alla notte”: Portraying the Night in 17th-Century Bologna’
• Jonathan Stark: ‘“Was habt ihr da zu schaffen? Kann man nicht ruhig schlafen?”A Survey of Nocturnal Settings in Viennese Opera, 1776‒1801’
• Jan Temme de Vries: ‘Nocturnal Piety. The Night Sky in Devotional Music from Lutheran Leipzig, Hamburg, and Copenhagen in the 18th Century’
• Alexander Robinson: ‘“L’heure du soir”: nocturnal boundaries and music in Paris c.1775–c.1815’
• Hanna Walsdorf: ‘Introduction’

Biennial Baroque Conference, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 16–20 July 2025:
Roundtable 'Nocturnal Musicking across Europe, c.1650–c.1800: reconsidering temporal and conceptual boundaries’ 

• Helen Gebhart: ‘Nocturnal Sounds and Signals: Tower Guards in Basel’
• Federico Lanzellotti: ‘Time, Music, and Night in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Bologna as a Case Study’
• Jonathan Stark: ‘Light, Shadow, Command, and Confession: Selected Night Scenes from Forgotten Viennese Operas’
• Jan Temme de Vries: ‘Finding God in the Night Sky. Physicotheological Traces in Domestic Lutheran Music’
• Alexander Robinson: ‘“Pour jouer la nuit”: the mandolin and nocturnal musicking in late 18th-century Paris’ 

RMA/BFE Research Students’ Conference, University of Aberdeen, 9–11 January 2025:
Panel ‘Singing in Darkness: Nocturnal Musicking in Sacred, Secular, and Theatrical Contexts’

• Helen Gebhart: ‘Listening to a Night Watchman’s Song: Music, Time Keeping and Nocturnal Authority in Swiss Cities’
• Jonathan Stark: ‘Composing the Night in 18^th Century Viennese Opera’
• Jan Temme de Vries: ‘The People That Walked in Darkness: Staying Awake in Bach‘s Leipzig During Advent: Possible Receptions of Cantata BWV 140 Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme Outside of Public Liturgy’

Forschungstag MusikDenkRäume, Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar der Universität Basel, 1 November 2024:
NightMuse Team Presentation ‘Nocturnal Monstrosities: Madmen, Magic and Music’

• Petra Zeller Dotlačilová: ‘The Monstruous Banquet of 1529’
• Helen Gebhart: ‘Felix Platter: Madman, Medic, Musician’
• Federico Lanzellotti: ‘What Musical Instruments for Nocturnal Devotion and the Representation of the Night?’
• Jonathan Stark: ‘Trofonio’s Cave, or: How to Summit the Spirits in Opera’

Teaching

Hanna Walsdorf with Jan-Friedrich Missfelder (University of Basel) and Alexander Denzler (University of Freiburg i.Br.): Kulturgeschichte der vormodernen Nacht. Interdisciplinary EUCOR research seminar for MA and PhD students, fall term 2025.

Jan Temme de Vries: Music by Night. Entdecke Musik im Nachtleben. Workshop at the ‘Schnupper Winter School 2025’, Universität Basel, 3 March 2025.