Sanna Raninen
Researcher at Department of Musicology
- Mobile phone:
- +46 18 471 62 06
- E-mail:
- sanna.raninen@musik.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3H
- Postal address:
- Box 633
751 26 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Sanna Raninen is a researcher of early music, specialising in the material and visual culture of music in Early Modern Europe.
Keywords
- history of the book
- manuscripts and print culture
- material culture
- medievalism
- renaissance
- visual culture
Biography
Sanna is currently working on a research project Cultural History of Music Books in Post-Reformation Sweden: Making and Owning Songbooks of Liturgy and Devotion, funded by Vetenskapsrådet. The project conducts a comprehensive study on the culture of written and printed music in the first two centuries of post-Reformation Sweden and Finland, with major themes on book production, formats, dissemination, contents, and readership. The project emphasises the unique aspects of music and its sources as part of the Swedish Reformation and the adaptation of written music culture alongside the traditions based on local variants, oral transmission and memory.
Previously Sanna was a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Finnish Literature Society, conducting a project funded by Kone Foundation on the material culture of music books in Post-Reformation Sweden. Her research on visual culture of music has particularly focussed on Italian art, as in years 2015–2017 she was a Research Associate for the the Leverhulme-funded project Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy at the University of Sheffield.
Sanna completed her PhD at the University of Manchester, as part of an Arts and Humanities Research Council UK -funded project Production and Reading of Music Sources 1480–1530, focussing on the production methods and use of printed sources of polyphony during the early sixteenth century.
Publications
Selection of publications
- Make do and Mend: (2020)
- Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy, (2020)
- The Songbooks of Peter Schöffer the Younger and Arnt von Aich: A Typographical Assessment (2018)
- The Early History of Printed Folio Choirbooks: (2018)
Recent publications
- No Country for Old Men? (2023)
- A printed Hymnal by Jacobus Finno (2023)
- Music, notation, and embodiment in early sixteenth-century Italian pictures (2022)
- Make do and Mend: (2020)
- Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy, (2020)
All publications
Articles
Books
Chapters
- No Country for Old Men? (2023)
- A printed Hymnal by Jacobus Finno (2023)
- Music, notation, and embodiment in early sixteenth-century Italian pictures (2022)
- Make do and Mend: (2020)
- The Songbooks of Peter Schöffer the Younger and Arnt von Aich: A Typographical Assessment (2018)
- The Early History of Printed Folio Choirbooks: (2018)