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 CUNY Graduate Center as Professor Emeritus and is the former chair of the City University of New York's music department, a post she held from 1990–2005. From 1993–1997 she was president of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music.[3]

She chaired the Music Department at the City College of New York for fifteen years.

Writings

Many of Hanning's writings have focused on early operas. 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 (1980) and its second edition of 2000; including biographical articles on Giulio Belli, Giulio Caccini, Gabriello Chiabrera, Marco da Gagliano, Giovanni Battista Guarini, Ottavio Rinuccini, Alessandro Striggio, and Torquato Tasso; and entries on the operas Dafne by Rinuccini, Dafne by Gagliano, Euridice by Peri, and Il rapimento di Cefalo by Caccini.[1]

Works

Books

Articles

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Barbara Russano Hanning". cuny.edu.
  2. "Profile: Barbara Hanning", Music Department, City College of New York
  3. "Barbara Russano Hanning". W.W. Norton and Co.