Robert Gauldin

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

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

• 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

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

• Gauldin, Robert L. Jr. (1959). PhD thesis. University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music.
  • Part I. The Historical Development of Scoring for the Wind Ensemble. 1959. OCLC 80085182 (all editions), 1066808516.
  • Part II. Three Symphonic Studies for Wind Instruments. 1958. OCLC 19825325.
• Bribitzer-Stull, Matthew; Gauldin, Robert (2007). "Hearing Wagner in Till Eulenspiegel: Strauss's Merry Pranks Reconsidered" (PDF). Intégral: The Journal of Applied Musical Thought (21). Eastman Theory Association, Eastman School of Music: 1–39. ISSN 1073-6913.^{[dead link]}; EBSCOhost 31528457. Re: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

Pedagogical textbooks^[a]

• Gauldin, Robert (2004) [1997]. Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music. W. W. Norton – via Google Books (no preview). LCCN 96-28216, LCCN 2003-66237; ISBN 978-0-3939-7074-6, 0-3939-7074-4; ISBN 978-0-3939-7666-3, 0-3939-7666-1; Gale A58633797; OCLC 53223722 (all editions).
• Gauldin, Robert (March 4, 2013) [1985]. A Practical Approach to 16th Century Counterpoint (revised ed.). Waveland Press – via Google Books (limited preview). LCCN 84-15989; LCCN 2014-567211; ISBN 1-4786-0471-9, 978-1-4786-0471-6; ISBN 978-1-4786-0875-2
• Gauldin, Robert (March 4, 2013) [1988]. A Practical Approach to 18th Century Counterpoint (revised ed.). Waveland Press – via Google Books (limited preview). LCCN 87-11364; LCCN 2015-563610; ISBN 978-1-4786-0876-9; ISBN 1-4786-0470-0, 978-1-4786-0470-9; OCLC 840477436 (all editions).

1. Also peer reviewed

Honors

• 1988 – Honorary doctorate, College of William & Mary
• 1988 – In connection with the honorary doctorate, Gauldin was R. T. French Company visiting professor at Oxford University's Worcester College^[a]
• 1952 – First Prize, Student Composition, Texas Federation of Music Clubs^[11] – Sonatina
• 1952 – BMI Student Composer Award^[12]
• 1964 – Winner of the 1954 Music Mountain Contest for works by American composers for string quartet – Partita in Four Movements: Intrada; Scherzo; Passecaille; and Rondo