Robert Luther Gauldin Jr. (born 1931) is an American composer. He is professor emeritus of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music.[1][2][3]

Career

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Robert Gauldin was born to Robert Luther Gauldin (1905–1959) and Lula Mae Self (1905–1977). He graduated in 1949 from Vernon High School, Vernon, Texas. During his senior year, he was Vice President of the Honor Society and, as clarinetist, President of the Band. In the 1949 Vernon High School Yearbook, he was labeled "the BEBOP man."[4]

Gauldin, in 1952, earned a Bachelor of Music degree in composition, with High Honors, from the University of North Texas College of Music.[5] He went on to study at the Eastman School of Music where, in 1956, he earned a Master of Music degree in Music Theory,[6] and in 1959, a PhD in Music Theory.[7] From 1959 to 1963 he served as professor of theory at William Carey College. For the next thirty-four years – from 1963 to 1997 – he was a professor at Eastman School of Music.[8][9]

Compositions

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  • Movement for Wind Quintet (©1953)
  • Music for Quiet Listening (vinyl LP). "Pavane" (Side A: track 4), by Gauldin. Eastman School of Music Orchestra, Howard Hanson (conductor). Mercury SR90053. 1959. OCLC 1052998561 (all editions) (audio via YouTube).[10]

Publications

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Gauldin is the author of Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music and has authored many articles in publications that including Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, Music Theory Spectrum, Journal of the American Liszt Society and Sonus.

Academic and peer reviewed
    1. Part I. The Historical Development of Scoring for the Wind Ensemble. 205 pgs. 1959. OCLC 80085182 (all editions) & 1066808516.
    2. Part II. Three Symphonic Studies for Wind Instruments. 1958. OCLC 19825325
Ped­a­gogi­cal text­books*

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*Also peer reviewed

Honors

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Bibliography

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Annotations

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  1. ^ The R.T. French Company, headquartered in Rochester, and its parent, in Great Britain (Reckitt & Colman Ltd. from 1926 to 2000; then, by merger in 2000, becoming Reckitt Benckiser Group plc), established an exchange professorship between the University of Rochester and University of Hull in 1953 and later expanded to exchanges between Rochester and colleges at Oxford University (May & Klein; 1977). Today, the program continues between professors at Oxford and the University of Rochester.

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