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 Eastman Studies in Music series.^[1][2] He is a contributor to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and several other books, and has been editor of several journals^[which?]. He is also "one of the most published musicologists on orientalism and music."^[3] Locke earned his BA at Harvard University and his PhD at the University of Chicago.^[4]

• 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