Robert Stevenson

(b Melrose, nm, 3 July 1916). American musicologist. He studied at the University of Texas, the Juilliard School, Yale, Rochester, Harvard, Princeton Theological Seminary and Oxford. He taught at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1949 to 1987. His chief interest has been Latin American music, in which his research has been extensive and outstanding; he has also contributed to the history of Spanish and American music, notably African-American and that of the Protestant church. His numerous publications reveal an impressive command of bibliographical tools and literature. In 1978 he became founder-editor of the Inter-American Music Review.