Barbara Russano Hanning
Barbara Russano Hanning (born 1940) is an American
musicologist who specializes in 16th- and 17th-century Italian music. She has also written works on the music of 18th-century France and on musical iconography
.
Education and career
She earned B.A. from Barnard College and a PhD in musicology from Yale University.[1][2]
Hanning is on the music faculty of The City College [CCNY] and the City University of New York [CUNY] Graduate Center as Professor Emeritus. She chaired the Music Department of The City College intermittently for fifteen years. From 1993–1997 she served as president of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music.[3]
Writings
Many of Hanning's writings have focused on early
Works
Books
- Of Poetry and Music's Power: Humanism and the Creation of Opera. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1980. 371 pp.
- Musical Humanism and Its Legacy: Essays in Honor of Claude V. Palisca. Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon, 1992. 543 pp.
- Concise History of Western Music. Based on Grout/Palisca, A History of Western Music. Norton, 1998. 585 pp. Second edition, 2002.
Articles
- "Apologia pro Ottavio Rinuccini," Journal of the American Musicological Society 26/2 (Summer 1973), 240–262.
- "Glorious Apollo: Poetic and Political Themes in the First Opera," Renaissance Quarterly 32/4 (Winter 1979), 485–513.
- "Music in Italy on the Brink of the Baroque," Renaissance Quarterly 37/1 (Spring 1984), 1–20.
- "The Iconography of a Salon Concert: A Reappraisal," in French Musical Thought, 1600-1800, ed. Georgia Cowart. Ann Arbor and London: UMI Research Press, 1989, pp. 129–48.
- "Reinventing Orpheus: New Music for a New Age," in The Waverly Concert Program Guide, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 7–17 (an essay commissioned by the Waverly Consort for their concerts in Alice Tully Hall on March 2 and 4, 1989).
- "Conversation and Musical Style in the Late Eighteenth-Century Parisian Salon," Eighteenth-Century Studies 22/4 (Summer, 1989), 512–28.
- "Monteverdi's Three Genera: A Study in Terminology," in Musical Humanism and Its Legacy: Essays in Honor of Claude Palisca, eds. Nancy K. Baker and Barbara R. Hanning. Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon, 1992, pp. 145–70.
- "Images of Monody in the Age of Marino," in The Sense of Marino: Literature, Fine Arts and Music of the Italian Baroque, ed.Francesco Guardiani. New York, Ottawa, Toronto: Legas, 1994. pp. 465–86.
- "Some Images of Monody in the Early Baroque," in Con Che Soavità: Studies in Italian Opera, Song, and Dance 1580–1740, eds. Iain Fenlon and Tim Carter. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995, pp. 1–12.
- "The End of L'Orfeo: Padre, figlio, e Rinuccini," Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music 7/2, (cited) Vol. 9/1 (2003). <https://web.archive.org/web/20190405171207/http://sscm-jscm.press.uiuc.edu/>.
- "From Saint to Muse: Representations of Saint Cecilia in Florence." Music in Art 29/1-2 (2004): 91-103.
References
- ^ a b "Barbara Russano Hanning". cuny.edu.
- ^ "Profile: Barbara Hanning" Archived May 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Music Department, City College of New York
- ^ "Barbara Russano Hanning". W.W. Norton and Co.
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