Barbara Russano Hanning
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Website : Barbara Russano Hanning at Julliard
Faculty member, The Julliard School; Emeritus Professor of Music, City College and Graduate Center, CUNY. Faculty member, Music Department, City College of New York (1970-2011). President, Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (1993-97). Author of Of Poetry and Music's Power: Humanism and the Creation of Opera and A Concise History of Western Music.
Primary Contributions (1)
Opera, a staged drama set to music in its entirety, made up of vocal pieces with instrumental accompaniment and usually with orchestral overtures and interludes. In some operas the music is continuous throughout an act; in others it is broken up into discrete pieces, or “numbers,” separated either…
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Publications (2)
Of poetry and music's power: Humanism and the creation of opera (Studies in musicology) (1980)
By Barbara Russano Hanning. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [353]-361.