Robert Luther Gauldin Jr. (born 1931) is an American composer.
In the 1949 Vernon High School Yearbook, he was labeled "the BEBOP man.
[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] 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.