Barbara Russano Hanning (born 1940) is an American

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some m ...

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 Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia ...

and a PhD in musicology from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

."Profile: Barbara Hanning"
, Music Department, City College of New York 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 theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libr ...

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 theo ...

'' (1980) and its second edition of 2000; including biographical articles on

Giulio Belli Giulio Belli (c. 1560 – 1621 or later) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance music, Renaissance and early Baroque music, Baroque eras. He was a prolific composer during the transitional time between the two musical eras, and worked in m ...

Giulio Caccini Giulio Romolo Caccini (also Giulio Romano) (8 October 1551 – buried 10 December 1618) was an Italian composer, teacher, singer, instrumentalist and writer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the founders of the genre o ...

, Gabriello Chiabrera,

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

Giovanni Battista Guarini Giovanni Battista Guarini (10 December 1538 – 7 October 1612) was an Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat. Life Guarini was born in Ferrara. On the termination of his studies at the universities of Pisa, Padua and Ferrara, he was appointed pr ...

Ottavio Rinuccini Ottavio Rinuccini (20 January 1562 – 28 March 1621) was an Italian poet, courtier, and opera librettist at the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. In collaborating with Jacopo Peri to produce the first opera, '' Dafne'', i ...

Alessandro Striggio Alessandro Striggio (c. 1536/1537 – 29 February 1592) was an Italian composer, instrumentalist and diplomat of the Renaissance. He composed numerous madrigals as well as dramatic music, and by combining the two, became the inventor of madrigal c ...

, 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 ''Dafne'' is the earliest known work that, by modern standards, could be considered an opera. The libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini survives complete; the mostly lost music was completed by Jacopo Peri, but at least two of the six surviving fragment ...

'' by Rinuccini, ''

'' 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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