Steven Saunders is Charles A. Dana Professor of Music at Colby College. His research centers on sacred music of the early 17th century and 19th-century popular song. His complete critical edition of the works of Stephen Foster, edited with Deane L. Root, was published by Smithsonian Institution Press, and his books on music in Vienna have been issued by Oxford University Press and A-R Editions. He is general editor of A-R's Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era and serves on the editorial board of The Complete Works of Alessandro Grandi.