Kelley Harness

harne005@umn.edu

612-624-0298

Music

168 Ferguson Hall

2106 4th St S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Curriculum Vitae

Collegiate Affiliation

Associate Professor Associate Director Spring '24 sabbatical Musicology/Ethnomusicology,

Music

Associate Professor: Musicology

Kelley Harness' recent scholarly work concentrates on the interrelationships between music, theatrical imagery, and politics in 16th- and 17th-century Italy. Her work relies on musical analysis to reveal a composition's allegorical messages and combines archival research and interpretive models from literary criticism, art history, and anthropology; her teaching reflects this interdisciplinary approach. Harness wants her students to master various tools in order to penetrate the expressive and intellectual layers of specific musical works. She is the author of Echoes of Women's Voices: Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), as well as numerous articles in journals and collections of essays. Her current research focuses on references to musical performance in 16th- and 17th-century Italian plays.

In 1994, she won the American Musicological Society's Paul A. Pisk Prize, and in 1991, she received a Fulbright Dissertation Grant for research in Italy. She is the recipient of publication subvention awards from the American Musicological Society and the Newberry Library.

Specialties

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Specialties

Music and theater in Italian convents
17th-century Italian opera
Musical intermedi in 16th-century spoken plays
Handel operas
African and Latin American music
16th- and 17th-century musical patronage
Women and political legitimacy in early 17th-century Florence
Political imagery in Renaissance arts

Publications

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Publications

Chaste Warriors and Virgin Martyrs in Florentine Musical Spectacle: Harness, Kelley, Gender, Sexuality, and Early Music, 2002.
Echoes of Women’s Voices: Female Patrons in Early Modern Florence. University of Chicago Press, Harness, Kelley, Forthcoming.
Habsburgs, Heretics, and Horses: Dramatic Combat Genres in Florence during the First Decade of the Thirty Years War: Harness, Kelley, I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Renaissance, 2003.
“La Flora and the End of Female Rule in Tuscany“: Harness, Kelley, Journal of the American Musicological Society, 51, 437-476, 1998.
“Le tre Euridici: Characterization and Allegory in the Euridici of Peri and Caccini“: Harness, Kelley, Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, none.

Activities

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Activities

Professional

Area Coordinator, School of Music, University of Minnesota 2002
School of Music Executive Committee, University of Minnesota 2002
Director of Graduate Studies, School of Music, University of Minnesota 2002
Chair, Graduate Studies Committee, School of Music, University of Minnesota 2002
Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Women's Studies Department, University of Minnesota 2002
Member, Language, Literature and Arts Policy and Review Council, University of Minnesota 2002
Member, American Musicology Society Council 2002 - 2005
Co-chair, Gay and Lesbian Study Group of the American Musicology Society 2000 - 2002
Member, American Musicology Society 1991 - present
Member, Renaissance Society of America 2001 - present
Member, Society for Ethnomusicology 1991 - 1999
Member, Society for Seventeenth-Century Music 2001 - present

Outreach

“La liberazione and its Context“: Pre-concert lecture for Ex Machina’s performance of Francesca Caccini’s La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina, Hamline University. September 21, 1997
Lectures and seminars on music, art, and politics in 16th-century Florence: Invited presentations held in Montevideo, Uruguay, funded by the Partnership of the Americas. March 15, 2004 - March 31, 2004

Research

Music in Sixteenth-Century Italian Plays: Study of surviving Italian playbooks for evidence of musical performance. May 2004
“Music and Theater at the Convento di Santa Croce in Florence, 1500-1700“: Archival research in Florence, Italy. Funded research, $10,000, McKnight Summer Research Grant/University of Minnesota Faculty Summer Research Fellowship. May 1998 - September 1998

Awards

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Awards

American Musicological Society's Paul A. Pisk Prize, 1994
Indiana University Press award for a paper presented at the meeting of the Midwest Chapter, American Musicology Society, 1993 - 1994
Fulbright Dissertation Grant, 1991 - 1992
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women's Studies, 1993 - 1994
McKnight Summer Research Grant, University of Minnesota, 1998
Humanities Institute Research Fellowship, September 2001 - May 2002

Courses

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Courses

Mus 3601W - History of Western Music I
Mus 8645 - Readings in Current Musicology
Mus 5950 - Topics in Music: Baroque Music in its Contexts
Mus 8640 - Seminar in Musicology: Patronage and Power
Mus 8640 - Seminar in Musicology: Music, Gender, and Sexuality
Mus 5950 - Topics in Music: Music of Vivaldi, Bach, and Handel
Mus 5950 - Topics in Music: Music of J. S. Bach