Robert L. Kendrick

Appointment:

Professor of Music

Education:

Ph.D., New York University

Contact:

Office: Goodspeed 314
Phone: (773) 834-8229
Email: rkendric@uchicago.edu

Robert L. Kendrick works largely in early modern music and culture, with additional interests in Latin American music, historical anthropology, and the visual arts. He is currently engaged in a book project on music and ritual in early modern Catholicism, and recent papers include work on 17th-century opera, Latin American colonial music, male religious orders, and the use of litanies. He is also one of the co-editors of the forthcoming collected works of Alessandro Grandi. Recent graduate seminars include: ‘European Sacred Music Abroad, 1550-1730’; ‘Senecan Drama, Stoicism, and Baroque Opera’ (co-taught); ‘Music at Habsburg Courts’; and ‘The Sound of Sight in Early Modern Europe’, and he has taught the Rome program of the undergraduate Civilization Core, as well as undergraduate ethnomusicology. In 2006 he won a Graduate Teaching Award. His books are 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). He has advised or worked with a range of early music performers, including Chicago’s Newberry Consort, Bologna’s Cappella Artemisia, and Boston’s La Donna Musicale. At Chicago he is affiliated faculty for the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (Italian, French, Spanish, Catalan), the Center for Gender Studies, and the Center for Latin American Studies, and he served as Department Chair in 2004-08 and 2009-10. A member of Milan’s Accademia Ambrosiana, Kendrick received his Ph.D. (musicology) and M.A. (ethnomusicology) from New York University, after a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and he is a former Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.