Robert Murrell Stevenson (3 July 1916 in Melrose, New Mexico – 22 December 2012 in Los Angeles) was an American musicologist.
In 1949 he became a faculty member at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he taught until 1987.
[1] He contributed significantly to the historical record of Spanish, Portuguese and American music.
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.