Ralph P. Locke

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Ralph P. Locke (born March 9, 1949 ) is an American musicologist and emeritus professor of musicology at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, and one of the best-known critics of classical music in the United States. He founded the Eastman Studies in Music series. He is co-author of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and several other books and editor of several magazines. Locke earned his BA from Harvard University and his PhD from Chicago.

Works (selection)

  • 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

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eastman Studies in Music Series Celebrates Landmark Volume .
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