Barbara Russano Hanning (born 1940) is an American

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

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

Barbara Russano Hanning earned her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. in Musicology from Yale University."Profile: Barbara Hanning"
, Music Department, City College of New York She is a Professor Emeritus on the music faculty at The City College of New York (CCNY) and the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. During her tenure at CCNY, she chaired the Music Department intermittently for 15 years. From 1993 to 1997, Hanning served as president of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music. Hanning is on the music faculty of The City College CNYand the City University of New York UNYGraduate 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.

Writings

Many of Hanning's writings have focused on early

opera Opera is a form of History of theatre#European theatre, Western theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by Singing, singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically ...

s. She is the author of three books and several journal articles. She has also contributed numerous entries to ''

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language '' Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and t ...

'' (1980) and its second edition of 2000; including biographical articles on Giulio Belli, Giulio Caccini, Gabriello Chiabrera,

Marco da Gagliano Marco da Gagliano (1 May 1582 – 25 February 1643) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque music, Baroque era. He was important in the early history of opera and the development of the solo and concerted madrigal (music), madrigal. Li ...

Giovanni Battista Guarini Giovanni Battista Guarini (10 December 1538 – 7 October 1612) was an Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat. Courtier at Ferrara, diplomat and secretary to several ruling families, he served also at Florence and Urbino. He is best known as the a ...

Ottavio Rinuccini Ottavio Rinuccini (20 January 1563Firenze, Registro dei battezzati al fonte di S. Giovanni tenuto dal preposto di S. Giovanni, Registro 14, Carta 76v. – 28 March 1621) was an Italian poet, courtier, and opera libretto, librettist at the end of th ...

, Alessandro Striggio, and

Torquato Tasso Torquato Tasso ( , also , ; 11 March 154425 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem ''Gerusalemme liberata'' (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between ...

; and entries on the operas '' Dafne'' by Rinuccini, '' Dafne'' by Gagliano, '' Euridice'' by Peri, and '' Il rapimento di Cefalo'' by Caccini.

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). . *"From Saint to Muse: Representations of Saint Cecilia in Florence." ''Music in Art'' 29/1-2 (2004): 91-103.

References

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