Ralph P. Locke

Ralph P. Locke
Born1949 (age 76–77)
Academic background
Alma materHarvard University
University of Chicago
Academic work
InstitutionsEastman School of Music
Main interestsMusicology

Ralph P. Locke (born 1949) is an American musicologist, classical music critic and professor emeritus of musicology at Eastman School of Music. He founded the University of Rochester Press Eastman Studies in Music series in 1994 and is the senior series editor.[1][2] He is a contributor to a number of reference works, including the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New Grove Dictionary of American Music, New Grove Dictionary of Opera, New Harvard Dictionary of Music, New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, American National Biography, Encyclopedia of New England Culture, and Encyclopaedia Britannica. He is an editorial board member of Journal of Musicological Research, Ad Parnassum: a Journal of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Music, Nineteenth Century Music Review, and Journal of Music History Pedagogy.[3] He is also "one of the most published musicologists on orientalism and music."[4] Locke earned his BA at Harvard University and his PhD at the University of Chicago.[5]

Selected bibliography

  • Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart, Cambridge University Press, 2015
  • Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections, Cambridge University Press, 2009
  • Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists since 1860, University of California Press, 1997
  • Music, Musicians, and the Saint-Simonians, University of Chicago Press, 1986

References

  1. ^ "Eastman Studies in Music Series Celebrates Landmark Volume". Retrieved 2020-12-13.
  2. ^ "Author: Ralph P. Locke". Retrieved 2020-12-13.
  3. ^ "University of Rochester Eastman School of Music, Ralph P. Locke".
  4. ^ Mabilat, Claire, 1980- (2008). Orientalism and representations of music in the nineteenth-century British popular arts. Ashgate. p. 12. OCLC 166290630.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "Ralph P. Locke". Eastman School of Music. Retrieved 2020-12-13.