Robert L. Kendrick works largely in early modern music and culture, with additional interests in Latin American music, historical anthropology, and early modern literature and theater in relation to music. He is the author of The Sound of Milan, 1580-1650 (2002) and Celestial Sirens (1996) and he has edited the motets of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani for A-R Editions (1998). His most recent project is a book project on music and ritual in early modern Catholicism, and recent papers include work on 17th-century opera, male religious orders and music, and the historiography of 17th-century sacred repertories. He is also one of the co-editors of the forthcoming collected works of Alessandro Grandi.