Faculty: Musicology

Barbara Russano Hanning
Professor, The City College and the Graduate Center
(Ph.D., Yale)

Music Department, Shepard 72
The City College, CUNY
Convent Avenue and West 138th Street
New York, NY  10031

212-650-6702 bhanning@ccny.cuny.edu

Barbara Russano Hanning is the author of a book on early opera and various essays and reviews on 17th-century Italian music, musical iconography, and 18th-century French subjects. She co-edited the Palisca Festschrift containing more than 20 essays on Musical Humanism and Its Legacy (1992) and is the author of the Norton textbook Concise History of Western Music (based on the standard college text by Grout and Palisca). She has served as president of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (1993-97) and has chaired the Department of Music at The City College of NY since 1990.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS: 

BOOKS

Of Poetry and Music's Power: Humanism and the Creation of Opera. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1980. 371 pp.

Co-editor, 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," RenaissanceQuarterly 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.

Various entries in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980) and in the second edition of The New Grove (2000), including Chiabrera, Guarini, Rinuccini, Striggio, and Tasso; and in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992) including Belli, Caccini, Chiabrera, "Dafne," "Euridice," Gagliano, "Rapimento di Cefalo,"  Rinuccini, and Striggio.

"The End of L'Orfeo: Padre, figlio, e Rinuccini," Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music 7/2, (cited) Vol. 9/1 (2003). <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

BOOK REVIEWS

Picturing Performance: The Iconography of the Performing Arts in Concept and Practice, by Thomas Heck. Current Musicology (forthcoming).

Vicentino's Ancient Music Adapted to Modern Practice, translated by Maria Rika Maniates. The Sixteenth Century Journal, 1999.

The Hoogsteder Exhibition of: Music and Painting in the [Dutch] Golden Age [Exhibition catalogue, with introductory essays], by  Edwin Buijsen & Louis Peter Grijp, et al. , in Music and Letters 76/3 (Aug. 1995), 422-24.

The Birth of Opera, by Fred Sternfeld. Renaissance Quarterly 48/3 (Fall 1995), 677-79 and in Music and Letters 75/4 (1994), 601-2.

Monteverdi: Music in Transition, by Silke Leopold. Journal of Musicological Research 13/3-4 (1993), 304-07.

The Politicized Muse: Music for Medici Festivals, 1512-1537, by Anthony Cummings. The American Historical Review, December 1993, 1643-44.

Divining the Powers of Music, by Ruth Katz. Music and Letters 71/1 (Feb. 1990), 80-82.

Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance, by Gary Tomlinson. Journal of Musicological Research 8/1-2 (Sept. 1988), 195-202.

Humanism in Italian Renaissance Musical Thought, by Claude V. Palisca. Journal of the American Musicological Society 40/2 (summer 1987), 337-43.

The Rise of Opera, by Robert Donington. Journal of the American Musicological Society 36/2 (summer 1983), 316-22.

Music in the Age of Chaucer, by Nigel Wilkins. The Musical Quarterly 67/2 (April 1981), 285-89.

The Letters of Claudio Monteverdi, trans. and ed. by Denis Stevens. Music and Letters.

Discorsi e regole di Severo Bonini, by Severo Bonini, in Journal of Music Theory 22/1 (Spring 1978), 111-15.