Barbara Russano Hanning


Barbara Russano Hanning 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.
Hanning is on the music faculty of The City College and the City University of New York 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.

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 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.

Works

Books