Gerald Ernest Heal Abraham, CBE, FBA (9 March 1904 – 18 March 1988) was an English musicologist; he was President of the Royal Musical Association, 1970–74.
Assistant Editor, Radio Times, 1935–39Deputy Editor, The Listener, 1939–42Director of Gramophone Department, BBC, 1942–47James and Constance Alsop Professor of Music, Liverpool University, 1947–62BBC Assistant Controller of Music, 1962–67Music Critic, The Daily Telegraph, 1967–68Ernest Bloch Professor of Music, University of California at Berkeley, 1968–69Chairman, Music Section of the Critics' Circle, 1944–46Editor, Monthly Musical Record, 1945–60Editor, Music of the Masters (series of books)General Editor: The History of Music in Sound (gramophone records and handbooks)General Editor: New Oxford History of MusicChairman, Early English Church Music Committee, 1970–80Member, Editorial Committee, Musica BritannicaPresident, International Society for Music Education, 1958–61Deputy Chairman. Haydn Institute (Cologne), 1961–68This Modern Stuff, 1933Nietzsche, 1933Studies in Russian Music, 1935Tolstoy, 1935Masters of Russian Music (with Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi), 1936Dostoevsky, 1936A Hundred Years of Music, 1938On Russian Music, 1939Chopin's Musical Style, 1939Beethoven's Second-Period Quartets, 1942Eight Soviet Composers, 1943Tchaikovsky, 1944Rimsky-Korsakov, 1945Design in Music, 1949Slavonic and Romantic Music, 1968The Tradition of Western Music, 1974The Master Musicians: Mussorgsky (with Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi), 1974The Concise Oxford History of Music, 1979Essays on Russian and East European Music, 1984New Oxford History of Music:Vol. III (Ars Nova and the Renaissance), 1960Vol. IV (The Age of Humanism), 1968Vol. VIII (The Age of Beethoven), 1982Vol. VI (Concert Music: 1630-1750), 1985 
