Education
She earned Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College and a Doctor of Philosophy in musicology from Yale University.
She earned Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College and a Doctor of Philosophy in musicology from Yale University.
She has also written works on the music of 18th-century France and on musical iconography. Hanning is on the music faculty of the City University of New York Graduate Center as Professor Emeritus and is the former chair of the City University of New York"s music department, a post she held from 1990–2005. From 1993–1997 she was president of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music.
She chaired the Music Department at the City College of New York for fifteen years.