Kelley Harness

Kelley Harness specializes in Florentine music and theater of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, situating the works she studies within broader social and artistic contexts. Much of her past scholarship has focused on women's patronage, including her book Echoes of Women's Voices: Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence and articles dealing with musical representations of biblical women such as Judith and Saint Mary Magdalene. She is a past Editor-in-Chief of the...See more

Kelley Harness specializes in Florentine music and theater of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, situating the works she studies within broader social and artistic contexts. Much of her past scholarship has focused on women's patronage, including her book Echoes of Women's Voices: Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence and articles dealing with musical representations of biblical women such as Judith and Saint Mary Magdalene. She is a past Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music and is a member of the musicology faculty at the University of Minnesota. See less