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These essays highlight the relationship between music and poetry in Italian secular works of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
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Introduction1. Opera Is Born: The Wedding of Music and Drama in Late Renaissance Florence
Originally published in
The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera, ed. Jacqueline Waeber. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 3-21.
2. Music and the Arts [in the Seventeenth Century]
Originally published in
The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music, eds. Tim Carter and John Butt. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 111-31.
3. Music in Italy on the Brink of the Baroque
Originally published in
Renaissance Quarterly 37 no. 1 (Spring 1984) 1-20.
4. Apologia pro Ottavio Rinuccini
Originally published in the
Journal of the American Musicological Society 26 no. 2 (1973) 240--62.
5. The Ending of
L'Orfeo: Father, Son, and Rinuccini
Originally published in the
Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music 9/1 (2003)
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6. Powerless Spirit: Echo as a Trope on the Musical Stage of the Late Renaissance
Originally published in
Word, Music, and Song: Essays on Early Modern Italy, 2 vols., edited by Rebecca Cypress, Beth L. Glixon, and Nathan Link (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2013) I: 193-218.
7. Monteverdi's Three Genera: A Study in Terminology
Originally published in
Musical Humanism and Its Legacy: Essays in Honor of Claude V. Palisca, edited by Nancy Kovaleff Baker and Barbara Russano Hanning. Festschrift Series No. 11 (Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1992) 145-70.
8. Tasso and the Italian Madrigal
Originally published in
Teaching the Italian Renaissance Romance Epic, ed. Jo Ann Cavallo (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2018) 271-79.
9. Love's New Voice: Italian Monodic Song
Originally published in
The World of Baroque Music, New Perspectives, ed. George Stauffer (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006) 25-47.
10. Some Images of Monody in the Early Baroque
Originally published in
Con che soavità: Studies in Italian Opera, Song, and Dance, 1580-1740, edited by Iain Fenlon and Tim Carter (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995) 1-12.
11. Glorious Apollo: Poetic and Political Themes in the First Opera
Originally published in
Renaissance Quarterly 32, no. 4 (Winter 1979) 485-513.
12. From Saint to Muse: Representations of Saint Cecilia in Florence
Originally published in
Music in Art (International Journal for Music Iconography) 29,
nos. 1-2 (Spring/Fall 2004) 91-103.
13. The Iconography of a Salon Concert: A Reappraisal
Originally published in
French Musical Thought, 1600-1800, ed. Georgia Cowart (Ann
Arbor and London: UMI Research Press, 1989) 129-48.
14. Conversation and Musical Style in the Late Eighteenth-Century Parisian Salon
Originally published in
Eighteenth-Century Studies 22, no. 4 (Summer 1989) 512-528.
About the author
Barbara Russano Hanning is Professor Emeritus of Music at The City College of New York (CCNY) and the City University Graduate Center (CUNY) and has also taught in the DMA program of The Juilliard School. She wrote a book on the beginnings of opera and articles on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian secular music, music iconography, and eighteenth-century French subjects. She also authored a college textbook,
Concise History of Western Music, currently in its fifth edition (2019). A past president of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, she currently serves on the Board of the NY-based early music ensemble ARTEK.
Summary
These essays highlight the relationship between music and poetry in Italian secular works of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
