Vanessa Tonelli

Title

PhD, Musicology

Current Research

Daughters of the Choir: Women Musicians of the Early Modern Venetian Ospedali (Forthcoming Book Project)

Recent Publications

"Making a Name in Music: Professional and Social Strategies of the Musicians at the Venetian Ospedali Maggiori," in Non-Elite Women's Networks across the Early Modern World, edited by E.S. Cohen and M.J. Couling (Amsterdam University Press, 2023)
Paradies: Le muse in gara - Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era (Madison, WI: A-R Editions, 2021)
"Le Figlie di Coro: Women's Musical Education and Performance at the Venetian Ospedali Maggiori, 1660-1740,"
PhD Dissertation (Northwestern University, 2022)

Forthcoming Publications

“Musical Daughters of Venice,” in Barbara Strozzi in Context, edited by Wendy Heller and Beth Glixon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2025)