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1951
UK Natural Science Faculty in Bratislava (mathematics and physics)
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1954
graduated in musicology at the University of Pedagogy in Bratislava, thesis on The Evolution of Harmony and Harmonic Thought
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1954
assistant at the University of Pedagogy in Bratislava, later pedagogue at the newly-opened Department of Musicology at the UK Philosophical Faculty in Bratislava (until his premature death in 1973)
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1968
title of dozent
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from 1969
member of the Acoustical Society of America, American Institute of Physics, Acoustic Commission ČSAV, Prague
Miroslav Filip left a striking mark on several fields of musical theory: he devoted himself to the question of note systems and the system of tonal harmony (Developmental Laws of Classical Harmony; co-author of Theory of Harmony and Concise Theory of Music), musical acoustics, applied musical acoustics, electroacoustics (vocal pedagogues, instrumental players, ethnoorganology) and bioacoustics (analysis of a recording of birdsong, together with the Hungarian ornithologist Péter Szőke).
In musicology he promoted the creative use of natural science (mathematics, logic, theories of information, cybernetics). Apart from pedagogical and scholarly work, he belonged to a musical ensemble, playing the cello as a member of the so-called KAF trio (Ladislav Kupkovič, Ján Albrecht, Miroslav Filip).
He is the author of several patented inventions (he developed a melograph for the needs of ethnomusicology, worked on the building of the first musico-acoustic laboratory in Slovakia in the Musical Department of the Slovak National Museum’s Historical Institute, collaborated with the Research Enumeration Centre of Comenius University in Bratislava, etc.).