Robert Murrell Stevenson (3 July 1916 Melrose, New Mexico) is an American musicologist. He studied at the college of mines and metallurgy of the University of Texas at El Paso]] (BA 1936), the Juilliard School of Music (graduated 1939), Yale University (MM) and the University of Rochester (PhD in composition 1942); further study took him to Harvard University (STB 1943), Princeton Theological Seminary (ThM 1949) and Oxford University (BLitt 1954). He taught at the University of Texas and at Westminster Choir College in the 1940s. In 1949 he became a faculty member at the University of California at Los Angeles where he taught until 1987. His major interest has been within the area of Latin American music and he has contributed significantly to the historical record of Spanish and American music. He has also written extensively on African-American music and the music of the Protestant church within the Americas. His numerous publications reveal an impressive command of bibliographical tools and literature. In 1978 he became founder-editor of the Inter-American Music Review; now in its thirteenth volume, it is regarded by many as the finest periodical within the field of American musicology. His works include nearly 30 books, a vast quantity of journal articles, and a large number of encyclopedia entries. He was coordinator of American entries for the Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart supplement and wrote over 300 articles for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
1.Music in Mexico: a historical Survey, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1952 (reeditado en 1971).
2.Patterns of Protestant church music, Duke University Press, 1953.
3.La música en la Catedral de Sevilla 1478-1606, Los Angeles, 1954 (Spanish version edited by Sociedad Española de Musicología-SEdeM, en 1985.
4.Music before the classic era: an introduction guide, Macmillan & Co. Ltd. Editors, 1955.
5.Shakespeare´s religious frontier, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1958.
6.Juan Bermudo, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1960.
7.Spanish music in the age of Columbus, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1958 (reeditado en 1960).
8.The Music of Peru. Aboriginal and Viceroyal Epochs, Pan American Union, Washington, 1959.
9.Spanish cathedral music in the Golden Age, University of California Press, 1961 (Spanish version: La música en las catedrales españolas del siglo de oro, trad. de María Dolores Cebrián de Miguel y Amalia Correa Liró. Revisión de Ismael Fernaández de la Cuesta), Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1993.
10.Music in Aztec (and) Inca Territory, University of California Press, 1961 (reeditado en 1968).
11.Protestant Church Music in America, a short survey of men and movements from 1564 to the present, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1966.
12.Portuguese music and musicians abroad (to 1650), Lima: Pacific Press, 1966.
13.La Música en Quito, Arnahis, editors, 1968.
14.Music in El Paso 1919-1939, University of Texas at El Paso, 1970.
15.Renaissance and Barroco Musical Sources in the Americas, Secretaría General, Organización de los Estados Amercanos, O.E.A. Editores, 1970.
16.Foundations of the New World Opera: with a transcription of the earliest extant American opera, 1701, Lima:Pacific Press, 1973. (Spanish version: Torrejón y Velasco, Tomás de, La Purpura de la rosa, estudio preliminar y transcripción de la música, Lima: Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Biblioteca Nacional, 1976).
17.Christmas Music from Baroque Mexico, University of California Press,1974.
18.Latin American Colonial Music Anthology, Secretaría General, Organización de los Estados Amercanos, O.E.A. Editores, 1975.
19.Caribbean Music History a Selective Annotated Bibliography with Musical Supplement, Gemini Graphics editors, 1981.
Bibliography dedicated to Robert M. Stevenson
BÉHAGUE, Gerard: "Stevenson, Robert M(urrell)", Grove Music Online, 2006. www.grovemusic.com (consultado el 05/12/2006).
CAMPOS FONSECA, Susan: “El corpus músico-lógico de Robert Murrell Stevenson (1948-2008)”, research work to qualify for the Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA), directed by Dr. Begoña Lolo, Ph.D. in History and Science of Music, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid,read and approved on October 2, 2008, unpublished.
CAMPOS FONSECA, Susan: “Robert Murrell Stevenson desde las reseñas críticas de sus contemporáneos”, Revista electrónica de musicología, Vol. XII-Março de 2009, Universidad Federal do Paraná, Brasil, ISSN 1415-952X. http://www.rem.ufpr.br/_REM/REMv12/11/susan_campos_fonseca.htm
CAMPOS FONSECA, Susan: “El legado de Robert Murrell Stevenson en la educación española”, OpusMusica, Nº34-Abril 2009, ISSN: 1885-7450. http://www.opusmusica.com/034/murrell.html
CAMPOS FONSECA, Susan: "Robert M. Stevenson: los inicios de una musicología fronteriza", Revista Música del Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, Madrid-2010, pp. 168–188.
CAMPOS FONSECA, Susan: "Robert Murrell Stevenson: Pensamiento músico-lógico y preguntar «músico(etno)lógico» en las Américas", Boletín de Música Nº 25, Casa de las Américas, La Habana-2010, pp. 93–111. http://www.casadelasamericas.com/publicaciones/boletinmusica/actual/revistaboletin.php?pagina=boletin
CLARO VALDES, Samuel: “Veinticinco años de la labor iberoamericana del doctor Robert Stevenson”, Revista Musical Chilena, nos. 139-40 (1977), pp. 122–39.
CURT LANGE F.: "Una nueva revista, un nuevo vocero musicológico de las Américas", Heterofonía, XII/2, Nº65 (marzo-abril, 1979), pp. 4–6.
FERNANDEZ DE LA CUESTA, Ismael: “Robert Stevenson: la Sabiduría de la sencillez”, Música, Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, Nº 1, 1994, pp. 12–14.
FERNANDEZ DE LA CUESTA, Ismael: “Biblioteca y Archivo del Profesor Robert Stevenson”, Música, Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, Nº 4,5,6, Años 1997, 1998, 1999, p. 105.
FERNANDEZ DE LA CUESTA, Ismael: “Stevenson, Robert Murrell”, Diccionario de la Música Española e Hispanoamericana, Madrid, Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, 1999–2002, Vol. 9, pp. 66–70.
MAGALHAES-CASTRO, Beatriz: “Haydn’s Iberian world connections: New perspectives on Robert Stevenson’s contributions to Latin American music studies”, en Ictus - Periódico do PPGMUS/UFBA, Vol. 6 (2005). http://www.ictus.ufba.br/index.php/ictus/article/view/57
MARIZ, Vasco: “Robert Stevenson aos 90 anos”, en Brasiliana, (No. 22), Brazil, Jan, 2006, pp. 29 – 30.
MERINO, Luis: "Contribución Seminal de Robert Stevenson a la Musicología Histórica del Nuevo Mundo", Revista Musical Chilena, Vol. XXXIX 164, 1985, pp. 55–79.
PEREZ SOTO A., y MIRANDA P.: “Robert Stevenson y la música mexicana: bibliografía selecta”, Heterofonía, nº 114-115, 1996, pp. 64–69 PULIDO SILVA E. : “Robert Stevenson, mexicanista”, en IAMR, X, 1989, 2, pp. 93–100.
ROBLES CAHERO, J. A. : “Una labor de medio siglo en la investigación musical: entrevista con Robert Stevenson”, Heterofonía, nº 114-115, 1996, pp. 48–63.
SLONIMSKY, Nicholas: “Stevenson, Robert (Murrell)”, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Centennial edition. Editor emeritus, Nicolas Slonimsky; Series advisory editor, Laura Kuhn. New York: Schirmer Books, 2001, pp. 1785–86.
STEVENSON, Robert: “STEVENSON Robert (Murrell)”, International Who´s Who in Classical Music, 2006, p. 763.
VV.AA.: “El legado de Stevenson, al Conservatorio de Madrid”, Ritmo Nº 656, Año LXV, julio-agosto, 1994, pp. 5, 18-22.
VV.AA.: "A Tribute to Robert M. Stevenson" (THIRD ANNUAL STUDY SESSION OF THE INTERNATIONALHISPANIC MUSIC STUDY GROUP, NATIONAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY, NEW YORK, NY, 3 NOVEMBER, 1995); en IHMSG Newsletter, Vol. 2, no. 2: Spring, 1996. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~hispanic/v2n2.html
VV.AA.: “Catálogo de las composiciones de Robert Stevenson en la Biblioteca del Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid”, Música, Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, Nº 7,8,9, Años 2000, 2001, 2002, pp. 187–253.
VV.AA.: “Robert Stevenson”, en AMS Newsletter, Vol. XXXII, Number 1, Feb. 2002, pp. 6–7.
CD productions:
SANZ, Justo y MARINÉ, Sebastián: "Robert Stevenson, Obras para Clarinete y piano, Homenaje al compositor, pianista y musicólogo en su 90º aniversario"; Real Conservatorio Superior de Música d Madrid, CD-06-II, Madrid, 2005.