Crocker, Richard L(incoln)
Crocker, Richard L(incoln)
Crocker, Richard L(incoln) , American music historian; b. Roxbury, Mass., Feb. 17, 1927. He studied with Schrade at Yale Univ. (B.A., 1950; Ph.D., 1957, with the diss. The Repertoire of Proses at St. Martial de Limoges), and later conducted research in England and France on a Guggenheim fellowship (1969–70). From 1955 to 1963 he taught at Yale Univ., and then at the Univ. of Calif, at Berkeley from 1963. He publ. A History of Musical Style (N.Y., 1966), with A. Basart, Listening to Music (N.Y., 1971), The Early Medieval Sequence (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1977), and Introduction to Gregorian Chant (London and New Haven, 2000). He also ed., with D. Hiley, Vol. II: The Early Middle Ages to 1300 in The New Oxford History of Music (Oxford, 1990).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire