Glen Leon Dallin Jr. (March 26, 1918
Silver City, Utah
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– December 31, 1993)
"Glen Leon Dallin, 31 Dec 1993"
California Death Index, 1940-1997, Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento was an American music theorist whose primary work was ''Techniques of Twentieth Century Composition: A Guide to the Materials of Modern Music''.
Dallin was born in Utah. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in music from Eastman School of Music
The Eastman School of Music is the music school of the University of Rochester, a private research university in Rochester, New York, United States. Established in 1921 by celebrated industrialist and philanthropist George Eastman, it was the ...
and a Ph.D. from The University of California, Berkeley
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. He then was a professor at Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University (BYU) is a Private education, private research university in Provo, Utah, United States. It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham Young and is the flagship university of the Church Educational System sponsore ...
from 1948-1955 and at California State University, Long Beach
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from 1955 to 1983.
References
Sources
Leon Dallin Collection
at Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music
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1918 births
1993 deaths
Eastman School of Music alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Brigham Young University faculty
California State University, Long Beach faculty
American music theorists
People from Juab County, Utah
20th-century American musicologists